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petrol

Gasoline. Used in the UK and most of it's former colonies, sans the USA and Canada.
Oddly petrol is NOT short for petroleum.
Brit: Looks like we need petrol. We'd better stop at a station and fill up.
American: Looks like we need gas. We'd better stop at a station and fill up.
by GAWII May 20, 2008
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snaps on the petrol

noun- A term used in place of "money for gas"
Connected to snaps
Yo, homey got some snaps for the petrol?
by Jayson Anderson July 7, 2005
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petrofied

to be scared
2. scared shitless
3. terrified of Petro
YO that kid was so petrofied when i came up to him.
Petro petrofies me.
by c los petro December 9, 2008
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kangaroo petrol

Special fuel that causes manual transmission vehicles to travel in short spurts, stopping and starting intermittently. Coincidentally, the true power of kangaroo petrol can only be unlocked by drivers with little experience driving manual transmission vehicles.
Louie - Gee Walters, looks like there's too much kangaroo petrol in that there gas tank for you to handle.

Officer Walters - Then we'll tow it. Either way, we're repossessing all your stuff.

Louie - I swear; she told me she was 18.
by malarky2020 February 23, 2010
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Stanislav Petrov

A Soviet officer which stopped doomsday from being a real thing on the 26th of September, 1983, trusting his instincts when a computer detected a American nuclear missile being launched towards the USSR. He refused to retaliate, thus avoiding the possible end of humanity.
You see this guy there, Stanislav Petrov ? Yeah, that guy fucking saved the world.
by Anakior July 10, 2017
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selling petrol

Iconic lyric from The 1975s It's Not Living
Matty: dOinG whAt?
Fans: sElLinG pEtRol
by isaiddhss:) October 19, 2019
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Petrograd

1. A.K.A. St. Petersburg, Leningrad.
City on the Neva river and Baltic Sea, RUSSIA founded by Peter the Great in 1703. Capital of Russia from 1712 until 1918. Though originally called Petersburg, the name of the city was changed to Petrograd in 1914, as the former name sounded too German. Renamed Leningrad in 1924, and St. Petersburg in 1991. A center of Russian culture, science, and architecture from the Baroque, Industral, and Soviet eras. Birthplace of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Though not involved in any way with the popular Russian children's program Spongevladimir Squareputin
Why are you looking up Petrograd in the Urban dictionary anyway?
by Paul O'Neill July 2, 2004
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