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Butane is a gas that's in your lighter. It's useful for turning on older stoves, cigarettes, weed joints, starting a fire with firewood to stay warm if you go camping or if the power goes out, turning on candles, and butane can even be used in mini-stoves. Butane is not a bastard gas, pentane is a bastard gas. Butane might not be as fancy as propane, but Hank Hill used a butane lighter to turn on his cigarettes and accidentally took a puff off of a weed joint thinking it is a self rolled cigarette. He ended up freaking out and sleeping in the bushes, LOL! Don't drive high! In another episode, he caught his son smoking a cigarette with his friend, and made him smoke an entire carton of cigarettes and he joined in the end. Then Peggy joined. Then they quit.
Properties
Chemical formula
C4H10
Molar mass
58.124 g/mol
Appearance
Colorless gas
Odor
Gasoline-like or natural gas-like
Density
2.48 kg/m3 (at 15 °C (59 °F))
Melting point
−140 to −134 °C; −220 to −209 °F; 133 to 139 K
Boiling point
−1 to 1 °C; 30 to 34 °F; 272 to 274 K
Solubility in water
61 mg/L (at 20 °C (68 °F))
Hank: You were smoking, Bobby?
Peggy: Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema!
Bobby: I thought those were the ingredients!
Peggy: Do you want to lose a Lung 'cause a boy will take it in a second?

*Hank and Bobby in the front yard! Hank dumping a whole carton of cigarettes!
Hank: Start puffing boy 'cause we got to get through 200 of these cigarettes!
Hank: *Hanks Bobby a butane lighter
Bobby: *puffs 30 cigarettes.

*Meanwhile in Dale Gribble's house
Dale: So Joseph, I heard you smoked your first cigarette.

Joseph: Sorry Dad, I promise to never smoke again.

Dale: Woah! I want you to make an informed decision! TM. If you want you can read a bloated government report on smoking. Or go straight to the horse's mouth and get the facts from the tobacco industry!

Doctor: Don't smoke, people. Vape! Then quit.
Butane by HawaiianPunch1 February 9, 2023
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Something you throw into a camp fire or fire in general. Then run like hell before it blows your eardrums out...
"RUN YOU DUMBFUCK! That butane bottle is gonna explode"
butane by happykillmore August 7, 2006
A bastard gas
“My dad says butane’s a bastard gas”
-Bobby Hill
Butane by Jahamez December 21, 2021
Code word for KY Touch Silk (Tingling Sensatation) Massage and Personal Lubricant
You know what's better on sunburn than aloe vera... butane... (long story feel free to ask)
Butane by Jack K'noff July 7, 2008

Butane Hit

When someone takes the last hit from a pipe and inhales only butane.
Lauren: "Pass the pipe."
Jeremy: "Sorry, girl, this shit's cashed. All I got off that last toke was a butane hit."
Butane Hit by Suttree April 25, 2010

Butane jackass 

Smug, yet insecure person who would believe in every lie being told; a snake whisperer; Believes lies all their lives.

Another meaning to "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire".
You are absolutely 100% pure butane jackass. You really believe that George Bush really made America great.

butane lighter 

A type of lighter used for a large number of purposes, which range from lighting a cigarette or fuse for a firework, or an act of arson.
The lighter itself can have a trigger or button, and can be in a Zippo-like case. The case can have ink printed or stone engraved art.

The process works by generating a spark after releasing the butane fuel. This creates a blowtorch effect.
If you look closely, you'll see that the ring inside the chamber glows red as the flame gets hotter.
If anything, you're gonna want to use a butane lighter to light fireworks on the 4th.
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A person pretending to be something they aren't, or an impostor. This is inferred because of the old alien movies where alien pods appear on earth and the "pod people" dispose of the humans and slowly reproduce the bodies, pretending to be humans.
The pod person was pretending to be my father, but I knew that he was an alien when he acted differently than my father ever would have.
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A dead drop is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.

Spies have been known to use dead drops, using various techniques to hide the items and to signal that the drop has been made. Drug dealers use this as well.

A common place is to duct tape the item to the underside of a toilet cover in a public restroom.

A signal is sometimes used as well to indicate there is something to pickup, like a pile of stones in a certain formation. After checking the drop the signal is removed.
"The dead drop is the restroom toilet at the Gulf station at the corner of Commercial Ave. and Georges Rd."
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This designation comes from Reddit, where so many stories of bad wedding behavior indicated a need to communicate expectations for the wedding behavior of attendees.
You are cordially invited to the nuptials of Brian and Tom on October 31 at noon.

Please note that this wedding is child-free (under 10) and a No Surprises Wedding (NSW). Reach out to wedding planner Sami Smith to request approvals or exceptions; please note that exceptions will be rare. Limited child care for under-10s will be available. All approvals will be noted and included in planning. Unapproved, or surprise exceptions, will result in guests being asked to leave.
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