English Dictionary

bowser

noun

(now chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station. / A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.

Bowser is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Nintendo's Mario franchise.

意味（1）

(now chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.

‘Kids are breaking into the service station bowsers at night, draining out the dregs of petrol from the bowser hoses, wandering the streets sniffing petrol from Coke bottles all night,’ he said[…].

意味（2）

A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.

The bowsers then go out to the aircraft and supply them with petrol.

意味（3）

(Britain) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as hon. Shidie has said, there is no water bowser in Garissa and he categorically said that there is a water bowser to supply water to the people of Kulan. Could he give the registration number of this water bowser which is supplying water to the people of Kulan?

意味（4）

(Ireland, slang, used in the vocative) A buffoon or imbecile.