bowser

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• 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.
• A buffoon or imbecile.

Origin

• From Bowser, after Sylvanus Bowser, US inventor of the first fuel pump; also a trade name of SF Bowser inc., the inventor's company.