filling station

filling station (plural filling stations)

2. A facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles.

   Synonyms: petrol station, petrol filling station, gas station; see also Thesaurus:filling station

   • 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:

     Here and there, under the porches of ruined filling stations, in the gaping doorways of office buildings, lie heaps of human bones.