high-test
(of gasoline) boiling at a relatively low temperature.
Origin of high-test
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How to use high-test in a sentence
I mean people who tell high-test, dry-aged, technicolor extravaganza sort of lies.
Fake Girlfriends and Other Dangerous Fabrications | Megan McArdle | January 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was mid-afternoon before the "Winged Arrow" was towed across to the dock and her tanks refilled with high-test gasoline.
Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope | Victor AppletonThen the motor roared and he and the engineer, took off at double the speed she could make on high-test gas.
The Sky Is Falling | Lester del Rey"A little while ago Spenski found his girl, and I would have withdrawn—for that is the high test," Samarc resumed.
Red Fleece | Will Levington ComfortManoeuvres of this kind, I must tell you, are a high test of military skill, and are often not fully intelligible to the lay mind.
With Rimington | L. March Phillipps
The low-pressure air cylinders were lubricated with "High Test" oil, having a flash point of 600° Fahr.
Scientific definitions for high-test
Relating to highly volatile high-octane gasoline.
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