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gallon

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gallon /ˈɡalən /
▸ noun
1 British English (also imperial gallon) a unit of liquid or dry capacity equal to eight pints or 4.55 litres.
▪ US English a unit of liquid capacity equal to 3.79 litres.
2 (gallons of) informal a large volume of something:
gallons of fake blood.
– DERIVATIVES
gallonage noun
– ORIGIN Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French galon, from the base of medieval Latin galleta, galletum ‘pail, liquid measure’, perhaps of Celtic origin.