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grease monkey
noun- a car or aeroplane mechanic US, 1928
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 46, 1945
- Well, Winfred, grease monkeys get a good union wage with fringe benefits and a pension plan[.] — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 80, 1959
- — Tom MacPherson, Dragging and Driving, p. 139, 1960
- Me an’ the Chief here locked horns with two greasemonkeys. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 264, 1962
- A free greasemonkey with otherwise clean habits is looking for garage space in which to practice his trade. — The Digger Papers, p. 20, August 1968
- Everyone assumes he was a grase monkey. But at twenty years old he was a first lieutenant. He flew a P-Forty-seven. — Elmore Leonard, 52 Pick-up, p. 88, 1974
- Maybe, just maybe, he’d won himself a date, this middle-aged grease monkey in shining armor, who would steal Kandi Barbour from the Dire Straits. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 12, 1986
- in oil drilling, a worker who lubricates equipment US
- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 61, 1954
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