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Carburetor
A carburetor (American English) or carburettor (British English) is a device that mixes air and fuel for internal combustion engines in the proper air–fuel ratio for combustion. It is sometimes colloquially shortened to carb in the UK and North America or carby in Australia. To carburate or carburet (and thus carburation or carburetion, respectively) means to mix the air and fuel or to equip (an engine) with a carburetor for that purpose.
Carburetors have largely been supplanted in the automotive and, to a lesser extent, aviation industries by fuel injection. They are still common on small engines for lawn mowers, rototillers and other equipment.
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Carburetor (noun)
A device in an internal combustion engine where fuel is vaporized and mixed with air prior to ignition.
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Carburetor (noun)
A water pipe or bong; a device or contrivance for mixing air with burning cannabis or cocaine. from 1970s
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Deuce (noun)
A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
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Deuce (noun)
A side of a die with two spots.
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Deuce (noun)
A cast of dice totalling two.
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Deuce (noun)
The number two.
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Deuce (noun)
A tie in which one player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
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Deuce (noun)
A curveball.
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Deuce (noun)
A ’32 Ford.
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Deuce (noun)
2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold.
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Deuce (noun)
A table seating two diners.
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Deuce (noun)
A piece of excrement.
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Deuce (noun)
The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
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Deuce (noun)
the two on dice or playing cards
“a doctored die having two deuces”
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Deuce (noun)
a throw of two at dice.
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Deuce (noun)
a two-dollar bill
“a deuce for the hat-check girl”
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Deuce (noun)
the score of 40 all in a game, at which each player needs two consecutive points to win the game
“a marathon game that went to eleven deuces”
“the Swede pegged him back to deuce from 40-love”
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Deuce (noun)
used as a euphemism for ‘devil’ in expressions of annoyance, impatience, surprise, etc.
“what the deuce are you trying to do?”
“how the deuce are we to make a profit?”