bottled gas

3.5

Gas like propane or butane kept in metal bottles for cooking and heating

noun
/ˈbɑːtld ɡæs/

: gas envasado

He always kept a spare cylinder of bottled gas for emergencies in case the power went out.

Examples

During the barbecue, we used bottled gas for the grill instead of charcoal.
Many campers prefer to cook with bottled gas because it is portable and easy to use.
Brizot provided the workshop buildings, the silver, the prototypes and specifications, the tools, charcoal, and bottled gas for the inadan.

Academic text (2006)

Synonyms

liquefied petroleum gas

vsbottled gas

Specialized

4.3

A fuel gas made from propane and butane kept under pressure

is specifically stored in portable containers for household or transport use

How Big

storage tank

8 3.1

tank truck

Specialized

1 3.4

gasoline tank

1 2.5

bottled gas

3.5

Surface Forms

bottled gas singular

bottled gases plural

Morphology

bottled + gas

The phrase is a regular adjective + noun composition: 'bottled' (gas stored in a bottle/container) + 'gas' yields a literal meaning of gas kept in portable containers. This is a fully compositional, cross‑linguistically common pattern (e.g. French 'gaz en bouteille', Spanish 'gas envasado'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Bottled gas comes from the simple image of gas kept in a bottle or small metal can so people can carry it to places without a main supply. So bottled gas means 'fuel' sold in small, portable containers for cooking, heating, or camping.