gasoline pump
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- noun
- /ˈɡæsəˌliːn pʌmp/
- US
:
bomba de gasolina
- For example, in the comment below about town residents' conversations at his gasoline pump, Cyrus explained how the loss of the dump was also a loss of a political and social space: #
- service gasoline pump
Examples
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One industry group, Growth Energy, made the bold move Thursday of calling for the tax credits to be phased out completely in favor of spending the money on more flex-fuel cars and gasoline pumps that support ethanol.
Blog text (33) -
Rural country stores, with their creaking wood floors and single gasoline pumps, are often romanticized as relic institutions of days gone by.
Academic text (2018) -
Through the glass behind him, we see Ace's car pull up to the only gasoline pump.
Fiction book (1994) -
Now, as I recall, there's a gasoline pump at the track.
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I'll be like, yo, don't, don't put the gasoline pump back yet.
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The street was cluttered with electric light poles, telephone poles, gasoline pumps for motor cars, and boxes of goods.
Academic text (2006) -
They were parked before a gasoline pump, and beyond the pump was a station, lit inside by long neon tubes, and at a desk before the wide window was a fat girl reading a magazine.
Fiction book (1990) -
The day dawned as the Greyhound stopped before a peeling white clapboard store that had two self-service gasoline pumps in front and an overhang porch with a bench where three old men sat.
Fiction book (1995) -
I filled my car's tank at the gasoline pump before heading on my road trip.
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The gasoline pump at the station was out of service, so I had to wait for it to be fixed.
Synonyms
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A machine at a service station that fills a car with fuel
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A machine at a service station that pumps petrol into cars
A pump at a service station that gives fuel to cars from underground tanks
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Morphology
The meaning 'a machine that dispenses gasoline' is directly and compositionally derived from 'gasoline' (fuel) + 'pump' (machine that moves fluids). This noun + noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistically regular pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Gasoline pump comes from the simple picture of a pump that moves gasoline from a tank into a car. Early stations used hand or visible pumps to push the fuel into the vehicle, so the name now means 'a machine at a station that fills your car with gasoline'.