Sentence examples for gear head from inspiring English sources
"gear head" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English
It is a colloquial term that refers to someone who is knowledgeable or obsessed with mechanical devices, especially cars or computers. Example: John is a real gear head and can tell you everything about the inner workings of a car engine.
noun
Alternative spelling of gearhead
"My father was a gear head, a tech guy and not a good businessman at all," she said.
Later I became a gear head, buying and selling cars, and made enough money to pay my way through college.
Reassuringly, Dr. Oliver was a crusty gear head who had made himself and others rich, not the sort of man given to romantic fantasies.
Banks, who grew up next door to Celli's family in Connecticut, said although she had not seen him in person in many years, she remembered him as "a normal guy" and a "gear head" who liked cars.
Ed Brojerdi, president and co-chief creative officer of the agency, declared himself to be "a huge gear head" before asserting that "diesel is just not what it was" because the new engines provide significantly improved mileage and what he called "head-snapping" performance.
Dr. Galloway's lab, which looks like Santa's workshop gone gear head, is filled with the detritus of a typical repair shop: rows of cars waiting to be serviced and piles of parts — PVC tubing, foam swimming-pool flotation "noodles," nuts, bolts and the like.
"This stuff isn't for gear heads," Mr. Menchini said.
STEVEN McELROY Tech Toys, New And Old It's a good week for gear heads.
"We're definitely not gear heads," added Tim Smith, the fuzzy-bearded front man.
As the boys and girls practiced recently, children walked by carrying baseball gear, headed for a nearby park.
And car shows like the annual Retro Classics, a vintage automobile fair, bring tens of thousands of gear heads to the city, whose population is 600,000, every year.
