derv
/dəːv
/(also DERV)
noun [mass noun] British
Diesel oil for road vehicles.Deep-sea fishermen blockaded the majority of French southern yacht and sport ports in protest against derv (diesel oil) price increases....
- Today, the company, which supplies the Garage, dropped its prices to 79.9p per litre on unleaded, 85.9p on LRP and 83.9p per litre on derv - roughly 5p down on last week.
- ‘It's costing us about £25,000 per month for derv,’ he said.
Origin
1940s (apparently Second World War forces' slang): acronym from diesel-engined road vehicle.
Rhymes
- mechanical tissue
- mechanical twin
- mechanical twinning
- mechanical wood pulp
- mechanical zero
- mechanician
- mechanicism
- mechanicist
- mechanicized
- mechanico-chemical
- mechanico-corpuscular
- mechanico-physical
- mechanico-receptor
- mechanics
- mechanic's institute
- mechanic's shop
- mechanise
- mechanism
- mechanist
- mechanistic
- mechanistically
- mechanization
- mechanize
- mechanizer
- mechano-