Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun vapor_lock

1 sense of vapor lock

Sense 1
vapor lock, vapour lock -- (a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor))
       => blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage -- (an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe")