gas

Naija

Alternative forms

• petrol 0.75 166, tanker 0.74 167, pipeline 0.74 84, expressway 0.73 55, bullets 0.73 28, underground 0.70 35, taxi 0.69 76, missile 0.69 50, kpofire 0.69 6

Etymology

From:English gas

Pronunciation

• gâs

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 5
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1137
• Frequency in raw corpus: 175
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1445

Definition

na chemical wey dey water water join air inside cylinder to take cook

Noun

na wetin dey inside cylinder wey dem dey take cook

1. • I go fill my gas.  — (Egbokhare_2020no translation
   • Na gas, no be liquid;  — (bbc__5095, __no translation__)
   • Di small kontri dey rich on oil and gas exports.  — (bbc__20753, __no translation__)

2. na heavy wahala wey burst

   • Kasala wey gas for Kaduna market don kill 55 pipo Kaduna: Goment don order 24 hour curfew  — (bbc__62008, __no translation__)

   unless dis gas don burn out, dis fire no go stop, na wetin im bin talk.  — (bbc__5096, __no translation__)

3. na slang wey dem dey take replace 'got to'

   • You gas learn how to crawl before you waka, dem suppose wait so dat dem no go end up for small club.  — (bbc__7937, __no translation__)

   Di rapper wey tok to tori pipo TMZ say e feel di energy wen e bin dey Chicago and e gas go wia dem dey call Africa.  — (bbc__37732, __no translation__)

   Zuma must go' protest: Yawa gas' between groups Jacob Zuma dey under pressure to resign  — (bbc__9446, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• petrol 0.75 166, tanker 0.74 167, pipeline 0.74 84, expressway 0.73 55, bullets 0.73 28, underground 0.70 35, taxi 0.69 76, missile 0.69 50, kpofire 0.69 6

Translations

• English: cooking gas

Verb

1. na wetin be wahala

   • Bobs, as yawa gas for di party, everybody take off.  — (Egbokhare no translation

Synonyms

• petrol 0.75 166, tanker 0.74 167, pipeline 0.74 84, expressway 0.73 55, bullets 0.73 28, underground 0.70 35, taxi 0.69 76, missile 0.69 50, kpofire 0.69 6

Translations

• English: to escalate