take gas (third-person singular simple present takes gas, present participle taking gas, simple past took gas, past participle taken gas)
- (slang, surfing, of a surfer) To be knocked off one's surfboard by a wave.
2014, Greg Gutierrez, Zen and the Art of Surfing[1]:Jordan took gas. He got rolled around the rocks and eventually came to a stop.
2014, Douglas Preston, The Kraken Project: A Novel[2]:He really took gas on that one.