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What a gas!
Meaning
- This describes something that is incredibly fun, hilarious, or exciting. If something is a gas, you are having a great time with it.
Retro, enthusiastic
Used in a sentence
- That concert was a gas!
- Hanging out with the grandkids is such a gas.
- We had a real gas at the drive-in theater.
The backstory
This is mid-20th century beatnik and jazz slang. It implies that the situation is so good it provides a high, similar to the effects of inhaling laughing gas.
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