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high-octane, a. and n.
Brit. |ˌhʌɪˈɒkteɪn|, U.S. |ˈˌhaɪˈɑkteɪn|
[‹ high adj. + octane n.]
A. adj.
1. Designating motor or aviation fuel with a high octane number.
1931Nevada State Jrnl. 10 Dec. 5 (caption) Scientifically regulated combustion..the same principle that gives high Octane ‘Standard’ Gasoline its extra punch in your motor. 1958Times 6 Nov. 7/5 All high compression engines respond to high-octane, highly anti-knock fuel. 1972M. Gilbert Body of Girl iv. 43 Filling the tank of an old Bentley with high-octane petrol. 1992Sci. Amer. Apr. 88/1 Similar strategies..have enabled..researchers to develop high-octane gasolines from the hydroisomerization of a pentane-hexane mixture.
2. fig. Vigorous, powerful; very intense; cf. octane n. 3.
1944N.Y. Times 19 Mar. ii. 3/6 High octane ballyhoo..has..smartly reversed the usual procedure of opus first and publicity, advertising and exploitation afterward. 1974E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes iv. 77 Mother and Uncle Harry, whose bodies and brains happened to be huge, paired engines that ran on high-octane ambition. 1995Wire Jan. 57/2 His high-octane Latino product decants ska, salsa, hi-life, mambo and just about anything and everything else South American into a peculiarly Dominican form of merengue called bachata.
B. n. Chiefly U.S. High-octane fuel.
1933Helena (Montana) Daily Independent 7 Aug. 8/1 Put some high-octane in the old gas tank. 1967Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) (East Valley ed.) 19 Oct. 40 a (advt.) That's like getting 12 gallons of high-octane free. 2004Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 27 Mar. 9 b, The Case dealership priced a gallon of unleaded regular Friday for $1.74, and a gallon of high octane for $1.86. |