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Gas-bar

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1970, OED Evaluation: North Canadian

a petrol station, esp. one without a garage for service or repairs, and having only basic facilities, as pumps and a kiosk.

ExampleMeaning
Yeah that used to be the bowling alley and the gas bar, and we had part of that, and then we moved from that over to the barn by the feed-mill.
Gas station
Yeah right from M-and-M down there was three- three houses there and then there was a bowling alley on the corner. And the little gas bar there. Super-Gas. And um and then across from there where Dixie-Lee is and that whole lot where the bowling alley is used to be the boat works.
Gas station
ExampleMeaning
And that's one good thing. We have a twenty-four hour gas-bar and corner store. Some communities don't have that.
Gas station
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So then he was kind-of bouncing around- and that's where he did ah like he worked in the liquor store for a couple years on and off, he worked in the beer store for a couple years. He was a meter maid for about a year or two. Um and then he worked ah at um- there's a- the Canadian-Tire-Gas-Bar. Not the one that's built now, there's a smaller one. There used to be. Across from the Canadian-Tire. <6> Oh yeah. <073> Store used a small Canadian-Tire-Gas-Bar. He worked there for about ah I-think a-year-and-a-half.
Gas station
ExampleMeaning
And then in between there and over here it was- it was a soccer field and a ball field and we call it- and this is where we played as kids and-that, eh? And then 'course you-know with the development of Hortons and ah, Canadian-Tire gas-bar and s-- everything else, but- but anyways they wanted to do something here to ah, you-know add to the community I-guess you'd say.
Gas station
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And there was a little- there used to be right there where the- where the- what do you call is it now? Where you get your gas? Interviewer: Downtown? Speaker: Right at the- as you going out forty-four, there's a gas bar there.
Gas station