high-test

[ hahy-test ]

adjective
  1. (of gasoline) boiling at a relatively low temperature.

Origin of high-test

1
First recorded in 1955–60

Words Nearby 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.

  • It was mid-afternoon before the "Winged Arrow" was towed across to the dock and her tanks refilled with high-test gasoline.

  • Then 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  • "A little while ago Spenski found his girl, and I would have withdrawn—for that is the high test," Samarc resumed.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 Comfort
  • Manoeuvres 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

Scientific definitions for high-test

high-test

  1. Relating to highly volatile high-octane gasoline.

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