dinosaur juice

noun

Any liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant.

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Meanings

noundinosaur juice (uncountable)
  1. humorousslanguncountableautomotiveAny liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant.

    […] but most of all why are we robbing our grandchildren by wantonly burning up all the world's dinosaur juice?

    2002, Paul Wood, False Confessions: A Life in Hawaiʻi, Flying Rabbit Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 113
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    Within the first 50 years of drilling 2,400 wells, over 859,000,000 barrels of petroleum were extracted in Signal Hill and the Long Beach area. The new darling of Long Beach was dinosaur juice, not celluloid, with the city going wild over the revenues generated by the plentiful natural resource oozing below the former stages of the city's movie community.

    1999, Jean-Jacques Jura, Rodney Norman Bardin, Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio, McFarland & Company, published 1999, →ISBN, page 157

    And that's just what runs on dinosaur juice — Honda also manufactures electric bicycles and carts and is constantly experimenting with solar- and other ultralow- and zero-emissions vehicles, […]

    2003, Aaron P. Frank, Honda Motorcycles, MBI Publishing Company, published 2003, →ISBN, page 188

    Synonyms: dino juice, dino oil, dinosaur oil, black gold, dino juice, dino oil, dinosaur oil, gas

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAny liquid (gasoline, diesel, mineral oil etc.) derived from fossil fuels (especially petroleum), commonly used in vehicles as fuel or lubricant.

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dino oildinosaur oilgaspetroleum

Origin

From a humorous association of the term fossil fuel with dinosaurs. This is technically incorrect, since petroleum is derived primarily from fossilized zooplankton and algae.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dinosaur juice,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dinosaur%20juice.

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