Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of volume in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to 4 quarts (3.785 liters).
- noun A unit of volume in the British Imperial System, used in liquid and dry measure, equal to 4 quarts (4.546 liters).
- noun A container with a capacity of one gallon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The butter-bur or butterdock, Petasites Petasites.
- noun An English measure of capacity for dry or liquid substances, but usually for liquids, containing 4 quarts.
- noun A measure of land. A gallon of land is supposed to have been the amount of land proper to sow a gallon of grain in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
unit ofvolume , equivalent to eightpints - noun UK exactly 4.54609
liters ; an imperial gallon - noun US 231
cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters forliquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon") - noun US one-eighth of a U.S.
bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon"). - noun in the plural, informal A large quantity (of any liquid).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters
- noun United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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No. Only, "That no merchant, cooper or any other person whatever, shall, after the first day of the first month, sell any wine under one-quarter of a cask, neither by quart, gallon or any other measure, _but only such taverners as are licensed to sell by the gallon_."
Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink 1847
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“They were going on and on about how $4.00 dollars a gallon is a good thing, and won†™ t make a difference to our economy.” —
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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Reason 5 -- tax incidence: as I pointed out, $1/gallon is not high enough to reduce consumption much (though it is high enough to divert a lot of money from better uses into government coffers), so we would not, in fact, succeed in taxing Arabs and Venezuelans very much.
Greg Mankiw Pumps for a Higher Gas Tax, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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$2. 25USD per gallon is a relative issue and I personally wouldn't make a decision strictly based upon the fuel cost.
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I'm sorry but this is sooo ridiculous. Its popular with students because you can chug liquor on the street. It is nowhere near as easy to control the amount of alcohol. Its literally called a blackout rage gallon.
St Paddy’s Parade Borg police Suff_erin_g 2025
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A “borg,” also known as a blackout rage gallon, is a mixed drink made in a plastic gallon jug, generally containing water, vodka, and flavored drink mix.
At least 13 people facing charges, slew of ‘borgs’ seized during St. Patrick’s Day parade in Boston Frank O’Laughlin 2025
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BORG is an acronym that stands for “blackout rage gallon.” BORG is so-named because it contains enough alcohol in one container to allow for a full night of drinking.
#BORG: The Latest TikTok Drinking Trend Cleveland Clinic 2024
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