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car⋅bu⋅re⋅tor

[kahr-buh-rey-ter, -byuh-]
–noun
a device for mixing vaporized fuel with air to produce a combustible or explosive mixture, as for an internal-combustion engine.
Also, car⋅bu⋅ra⋅tor, car⋅bu⋅ret⋅er; especially British, car⋅bu⋅ret⋅tor, car⋅bu⋅ret⋅ter [kahr-byuh-ret-er] .


Origin:
1860–65; carburet + -or 2
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car·bu·re·tor   (kär'bə-rā'tər, -byə-)   


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n.  A device used in internal-combustion engines to produce an explosive mixture of vaporized fuel and air.

[From carburet.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
carburetor

  1. n.
    a device for smoking cannabis that mixes the smoke with air. (Drugs.) : I have a carburetor with the rest of my stash.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

carburetor 
1866, from carburet "compound of carbon and another substance" (1795), from carb- + -uret, an archaic suffix formed from Mod.L. -uretum to parallel Fr. words in -ure. Motor vehicle sense is from 1896.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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