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n. fuel in fluid form used in a cigarette lighter
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Lighter fluid may refer to:
- Butane, a highly flammable, colorless, easily liquefied gas used in gas type Lighters and Butane torches
- Naphtha or White gas, a volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture used in wick type lighters and burners
- Charcoal lighter fluid, an aliphatic petroleum solvent used in lighting charcoal in a barbecue grill
Usage examples of "lighter fluid".
Harvey was carefully laying out his sticks, and hadn't yet reached into his pockets for the lighter fluid, when they smelled it.
If she squirted him with lighter fluid the instant he appeared, he might be sufficiently startled to lose a full second of reaction time, might lose another second or so in shock as he smelled the fluid and realized he had been sprayed with something highly flammable.
When the lighter fluid hit the hairlike things, they made high, mewling cries like kittens which had just been born.
Do we try to drive it off with broom handles and charcoal lighter fluid ?
This was no painless flameglove of lighter fluid, to be waved in the air and then shaken out like a big match.
He had not put anything under there since the knife, and he did not intend to leave the lighter fluid there long, but it would have to stay there for the rest of the day.
After dripping some lighter fluid on the two piles and over the baron's hair and chest, he touched off the fluid.
There were some moldy leaves drifted there, and I used the last of my lighter fluid trying to get a little blaze going, but that turned out like everything else Id tried lately: a fizzle.
There were some moldy leaves drifted there, and I used the last of my lighter fluid trying to get a little blaze going, but that turned out like everything else I'd tried lately: a fizzle.
He lifted the briefcase onto his lap and felt around inside for the old glue bottle that contained his most extreme deliriant, a sudsy composite of lighter fluid, paint thinner, airplane glue, nail polish remover and several types of aerosol propellant.
Pried the Springer name out of him in an easy five minutes, after pulling two fingernails, filling his navel with lighter fluid and threatening to strike a match.
Wayne took out a lighter and poured a small amount of lighter fluid into it.