Definitions
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- noun The
lever used to changegear in avehicle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
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Examples
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The details – the metal pedals and nifty gearstick – are all compact and sporty and designed with design in mind.
On the road: Citroën DS3 1.6 THP DSport Andrew Anthony 2010
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(It does, however, look AWESOME.) I want to replace the scratched handbrake and the torn leather around the gearstick.
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The gearstick looks much more like a microphone than a knob, and the title is clearly waiting for a Terry Gilliam giant foot to come hard down upon it and squash it flat.
J G Ballard, Crash (1973) Adam Roberts 2010
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If what we are seeing here is grooming become gossip, gossip become narrative, what we see in the plays of Harold Pinter is this process revealed by its inversion, by a wrenching of the gearstick that puts everything into reverse.
Archive 2008-09-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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The gearstick looks much more like a microphone than a knob, and the title is clearly waiting for a Terry Gilliam giant foot to come hard down upon it and squash it flat.
Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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There are 38 body and roof colour combinations to choose from – the wing mirrors, wheel caps, dashboard, gearstick, upholstery and even carpets can all be specified.
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If what we are seeing here is grooming become gossip, gossip become narrative, what we see in the plays of Harold Pinter is this process revealed by its inversion, by a wrenching of the gearstick that puts everything into reverse.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3) Hal Duncan 2008
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Maybe they wanted to use your gearstick in a stolen vehicle so that they didn't get their fingerprints all over the existing one?
Pissed off StyleyGeek 2008
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To use a car metaphor, she's a four-wheel drive in bed, turbo-charged desire, step on the accelerator, the surging gearstick in her hands, you round the corner, she shifts gears ecstatically, you race ou in the fast lane and bang! you're there.
Recortes Artur 2008
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She said she got it from the gearstick of his car.
Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004
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