dinosaur juice

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dinosaur juice

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From a humorous association of the term fossil fuel with dinosaurs. This is technically incorrect, since petroleum is derived primarily from fossilized zooplankton and algae.

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humorous, slang, uncountable Any liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant. Within the first 50 years of drilling 2,400 wells, over 859,000,000 barrels of petroleum were extracted in Signal Hill and the Long Beach area. The new darling of Long Beach was dinosaur juice, not celluloid, with the city going wild over the revenues generated by the plentiful natural resource oozi
Similar: dino juice, dino oil, dinosaur oil, black gold, dinosaur juice, gas, gasoline, juice, oil, petrol, petroleum, Texas tea

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@misc{dinosaur_juice_2026,
  title = {dinosaur juice},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dinosaur%20juice},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}