Cryptic crossword clue
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The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word JET

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What does JET mean?

JET noun
  1. A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
  2. A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
  3. A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
  4. An engine that propels a vehicle using a stream of fluid as propulsion.
  5. A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
  6. A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
  7. Drift; scope; range, as of an argument.
  8. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
JET verb
  1. To spray out of a container.
  2. To spray with liquid from a container.
  3. To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
  4. To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
  5. To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
  6. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
  7. To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
  8. To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
  9. To leave.
JET adjective
  1. Propelled by turbine engines.
JET noun
  1. A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
  2. (color) The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
JET adjective
  1. Very dark black in colour.

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