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What does petrol mean?

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Noun
  1. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Petroleum, a fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, primarily consisting of octane, commonly used as a motor fuel.
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When he completed the program and came back here the parents gave him a jerrycan full of petrol.
Teenagers are often injured from illicit activities involving accelerants, such as petrol, or electrocution.
There have been attacks on mosques ranging from windows being broken to petrol bombings.
But the rest of you, squandering money to quench your thirst with a drink more expensive than petrol, you're just weak-willed and wet.
Yet we have already seen long queues of vehicles outside York petrol stations as people wait to fill up the tank.
It wasn't the hours of toil, sweat and petrol clearing the footpath which concerned me, but the wasted wheat.

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