gas pedal

1. 1.

   a pedal that controls the throttle valve

   “he stepped on the gas”

   Synonymsacceleratoraccelerator pedalgasthrottlegun

   Broaderpedal

   Part ofcarairplane

Questions about gas pedal

What does gas pedal mean?

gas pedal means "a pedal that controls the throttle valve".

What is another word for gas pedal?

Close synonyms include accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, throttle, gun. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gas pedal a common word?

gas pedal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.