salad oil
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of salad oil
First recorded in 1550–60
Example Sentences
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If you don't have any avocado or grapeseed oil, reach for any neutral tasting salad oil.
From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022
I’m wearing the same t-shirt on which my youngest wiped a perfect handprint of salad oil.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2017
With the pinkish hydraulic fluid spurting in our faces�and with no salad oil aboard to refill the draining hydraulic system�we stopped the leaks with chewing gum, reinforcing our handiwork with Band-Aids from the medical kits.
From Time Magazine Archive
A onetime shoe-clerk, dancing master and salad oil salesman, Al Munro Elias became a baseball statistician in 1914.
From Time Magazine Archive
Corn oil can be used as a cooking or salad oil.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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