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  • noun Plural form of gas-guzzler.

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Examples

  • As GM was heading into bankruptcy, the plant was making sport-utility vehicles that few customers wanted—gas-guzzlers like the Chevrolet Trailblazer and the Saab 9-7X—and was a big drain on GM's finances.

    The Secrets of the GM Diet Sharon Terlep 2011

  • One of the brands' biggest challenges will be keeping up with big technology investments needed to meet stricter emissions regulation in the U.S. and Europe: Unlike BMW and other luxury rivals, the company has few smaller models to offset their gas-guzzlers and meet the fleet-average targets.

    Cast-Off Car Brands Find a Road Back Vanessa Fuhrmans 2011

  • Mary Peterson, 48, of Michigan City, Ind., wonders why the money spent to get people to trash their old gas-guzzlers in favor of new (and, it turns out, often foreign-built) vehicles wasn't spent on health care clinics for the poor.

    Cash for clunker columns 2009

  • The results are boosting Detroit auto makers that suffered when gas-guzzlers got the cold shoulder in 2008.

    Americans Embrace SUVs Again Mike Ramsey 2011

  • These days we all should meditate and give thanks that we have aircons roaring and gas-guzzlers rushing from mall to mall, and wretched 'Western' excess in the face of the earth imploding on us all.

    happy Solstice Another Outspoken Female 2009

  • This is an idea that will work for electric cars, hybrids and gas-guzzlers: make parts interchangeable.

    Susanna Murley: 5 Ideas to Charge-up the Electric Car Susanna Murley 2011

  • This is an idea that will work for electric cars, hybrids and gas-guzzlers: make parts interchangeable.

    Susanna Murley: 5 Ideas to Charge-up the Electric Car Susanna Murley 2011

  • This is an idea that will work for electric cars, hybrids and gas-guzzlers: make parts interchangeable.

    Susanna Murley: 5 Ideas to Charge-up the Electric Car Susanna Murley 2011

  • This is an idea that will work for electric cars, hybrids and gas-guzzlers: make parts interchangeable.

    Susanna Murley: 5 Ideas to Charge-up the Electric Car Susanna Murley 2011

  • There would probably be a decrease in the amount of high-fructose corn syrup in the market, in the 10 billion animals we “process” annually, in the ethanol used to fill gas-guzzlers and in the soy from which we chemically extract oil for frying potatoes and chicken.

    The argument for farm subsidies -- though not the ones we have now 2011

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