French-English translations for boulet de canon

cannonball
us
The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwiredThe New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40Meetings of the model train club always begin with the song "Wabash Cannonball".
gas
us
A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinderThe atmosphere is made up of a number of different gasesGas-fired power stations have largely replaced coal-burning ones