vapor lock
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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It's like a vapor lock for his brain.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2022
When faced with such an oversupply of choice, our little lizard brains go straight to vapor lock.
From Time • May 28, 2010
It's something more pernicious: the vapor lock that seems to have seized Toyota's mythologized corporate culture and turned one of the most admired companies in the world into a bunch of flailing gearheads.
From Time • Feb. 11, 2010
The first fuel truck they sent out to the plane had a vapor lock.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 1996
It creates a massive vapor lock, as it were, in mammalian fuel lines: The body is prevented from turning what it eats into a source of usable energy.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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