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vapor lock is a noun meaning "a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor)". It carries one recorded sense.
a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor)
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vapor lock come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.