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vapor lock

 
Noun vapor lock has 1 sense
  1. vapor lock, vapour lock - 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)
    --1 is a kind of blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage
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