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petro-masculinity

"Big men drive big trucks that roll coal" (see Reply All podcast episode #170)

Feeling the need to own and drive an excessively large truck as part of your identity, but never having loads that require an engine of that size.
The narrative of righteous fossil democracy is crucial not only to American identity writ large, but to its hegemonic white masculinities, through the rosy nostalgia afforded by the petro-masculinity identity. (Daggett, 2018)
by moonshine6969 January 2, 2021
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petrop

Petrop means 5 minutes or the number 5 in taibeckanese
hey man we've only got petrop till we have to have a shit together in school with the whole rest of our class or man my dick is petrop inches long
by MUDA FUCKA April 16, 2005
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petrometer

pe-trom-e-ter
-noun
Any instrument on an automobile or other vehical for indicating the quantity of fuel remaining relative to the total size of the vechical's fuel reserve area.
Wow Kenneth! Look at your petrometer. We are really running low on gas. Let’s just dump the bodies here, and then hit up that party Ladonica told us about when we picked up my fissure ointment at Rite Drug.
by Petro King December 9, 2008
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petrolism

A belief system based on pro petroleum policies and views.
OPEC practices petrolism for its own self-interests.
by jogils May 24, 2009
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Petrolithe

When stone and certain rocks melt into a mixture forming Petrolithe.
That petrolithe sure looks rad on that house.
by Dr. Sesimania September 8, 2009
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petro-rain

petro-rain

Rain in Louisiana created by a mixture of saltwater and oil from spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

This is really happening...
Jon: They used to say, 'It's raining Cats and Dogs'.

Rebbeca: Yea, now it's raining Oil in Louisiana.

Jon: They call that perto-rain. Tru-story.
by ChrisDocJ June 26, 2010
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petrolihole

An out of control oil leak under water, about a mile deep in the ocean. Kind of like the recent misfortune of BP.
Wow man, did you hear that BP finally plugged that petrolihole in the Gulf of Mexico? It was spewing oil for over 80 days.
by ElmoFuzzyMoto July 16, 2010
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