GASEOUS


Meaning of GASEOUS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ adj. ]

Deserving of being gas sed. Disseminated by Geoff Goodfellow while at SRI; became particularly popular after the Moscone-Milk killings in San Francisco, when it was learned that the defendant Dan White (a politician who had supported Proposition 7) would get the gas chamber under Proposition 7 if convicted of first-degree murder (he was eventually convicted of manslaughter).

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.