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- noun colloquial An
automobile mechanic .
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Examples
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What he perceives as the hypocrisy of the actor Robbie Coltrane, who attended a fancy school in Scotland before reinventing himself as "a lowborn grease-monkey," inspires a rare, and comical, rant.
True Tales of a Happy Hypocrite Alexandra Mullen 2012
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While the Congress frets about the millions of Toyotas on the road that probably shouldn't be, our grease-monkey brothers at Consumer Reports were busy getting domestic.
Consumer Reports Gets Patriotic, Names Best American Cars For 2010 - The Consumerist 2010
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He became a grease-monkey Andy Warhol, employing incredible artists like Ed Newton & Robert Williams to do his art for him, which he signed and mass produced.
Boing Boing 2007
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It's frustrating that no one cares and it's frustrating that someone like Ayers can find a place teaching in a University while other violent criminals have the worst time just getting a job as a grease-monkey.
Dana Milbank would like Sarah Palin to stop fighting and accept defeat graciously. Ann Althouse 2008
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I should have figured that this liberal, grease-monkey crowd would love Ted Rall the cartoonist!
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I laid her on the divan, thinking this'll give us time to restore our energies, and went into the wash-room to rid myself of the oil — I've known randy women have some odd tastes: birches, spurs, hair-brushes, peacock feathers, baths, handcuffs, God knows what, but Jeendan's the only grease-monkey I can recall.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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I laid her on the divan, thinking this'll give us time to restore our energies, and went into the wash-room to rid myself of the oil - I've known randy women have some odd tastes: birches, spurs, hair-brushes, peacock feathers, baths, handcuffs, God knows what, but Jeendan's the only grease-monkey I can recall.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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A tall, gangling grease-monkey came in, blinked around obviously awed by the assembly of top brass.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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A grease-monkey gear-head chick reeking of WD-40 would put me in euphoria.
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A grease-monkey gear-head chick reeking of WD-40 would put me in euphoria.
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