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单词 oildown
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oildown

English

Alternative forms

  • oil-down
  • oil down

Noun

oildown (countable and uncountable, plural oildowns)

  1. The national dish of Grenada, consisting of meat, breadfruit, and other vegetables slow-cooked in coconut milk until all the coconut milk is absorbed.
    • 2011, Wendy Crawford-Daniel, Unveiling Island Passion, →ISBN, page 34:
      Tomorrow night we go be cooking ah oildown right heah.
    • 2014, Sarah Cameron, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines Footprint Focus Guide, →ISBN:
      A huge variety and interesting combinations of local foods, breadfruit salad and green papaya salad are outstanding while you can also be offered stir fry rabbit, green papaya in cheese sauce, cou-cou, tannia cakes with shrimps, oildown with coconut cream, many dishes you may never have tried before.
    • 2016, Elizabeth Harrison, A Slim Chance, →ISBN:
      If you knew where to go there were rum shops away from the tourist areas where you could live like the locals, share a chicken oildown, a beer, a tot of rum and a splif of ganja.
  2. (car racing) An oil spill sufficiently serious as to require the use of mechanical equipment to clean it up.
    • 1983, Walter A. Woron, Motor Trend - Volume 35, page 72:
      A first lap track oildown shuffled the front-running pack and ended defending champ Don Courtney's chances to repeat.
    • 2010 November 14, John Sturbin, “Drivers Blowing Gaskets Over New Oildown Rule”, in Racin' Today:
      NHRA’s recently revised oildown policy did not factor into either Top Fuel or Funny Car qualifying for the 46th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals.
    • 2015 September 24, Louis Brewster, “NHRA cuts oildown penalty after Terry McMillen incident”, in Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:
      “We’ve seen a decrease in oildowns this year and we want to thank the teams for making that happen,” NHRA president Peter Clifford said. “Oildowns hurt our sport, and we realize no competitor wants to oil down the race track. We have a commitment from teams to address the oildown situation and improve it.”
  3. Alternative form of oil-down
    • 1997, San Diego Magazine - Volume 50, page 30:
      Programs range from hour-long combinations of services (massage, exfoliation, wraps, facials and bliss-inducing oildowns with exotic names like Ayurvedic) to day-long agendas. Upon arrival at the spa, I'm led to an all-white room where ethereal New Age music is playing — an Enya song; luckily, no Kenny G. I alert the aesthclician, a serene Israeli woman named Anal, that I'm none loo partial to oils, gels, goops and the like.

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