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It is a slang term that refers to someone who is very interested and knowledgeable about cars, motorcycles, or other mechanical devices. It is often used to describe someone who is passionate about working on or collecting these types of machines. Example: John is a true gearhead and spends all his weekends in his garage, tinkering with his vintage car collection.
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gearhead
noun
A mechanical device used to increase the torque of gears.
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It was a dream role, the actor said, and as a self-confessed "gearhead" he kept the character's signature sports car from the film.
Keys: Benjamin Franklin He's totally the gearhead of this band and he basically invented the glass harmonica so I think he could handle this.
Only a hard-core gearhead would know that their main implement, during the recording of "Thriller," at Westlake Studios, in 1982, was a Harrison 4032, a solid-state recording console.
As a teen-ager in the nineteen-seventies, Kuiken was a self-described gearhead and a science-fiction fan who watched "The Six Million Dollar Man" on TV.
His book is called "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work" (Penguin; $25.95), and it's intended as a challenge, a declaration of gearhead pride in an ever more gearless world.
Born in Detroit in the seventies, Clemens grew up in a white enclave, and his memoir lovingly depicts his soft-spoken, gearhead father, who could shift from first to fifth without ever engaging the clutch, and his stalwart mother, who cleaned houses to pay for a private education that would keep her son out of inner-city schools.
He studied aeronautics and astronautics, not because he had any particular interest in flight but because it struck him as the closest thing academia had to offer a gearhead.
He is a self-professed "map nut," but really more of a gearhead.
"Eighty percent of the allure of doing the movie was the possibility of meeting them," Mr. Wyle said, adding, "I'm no gearhead".
"I'm a gearhead," he said to open the meeting.
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He retrieved a padded envelope with allergy medication and stuck it into a small black wheelie bag containing throat spray and some motorcycle magazines for his longtime lighting man and fellow-gearhead, Steve Cohen.
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