petrolhead
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is overly reliant on the use of their car, resisting any suggestion to use other means of transport.
Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "2000, Chris Baker, Kokopu Dreams, Huia Publishers, New Zealand, page 87, There were four of them, old-style petrolheads, with greasy jeans and leather jackets. Each had a rifle trained on the pair. They looked barely out of their teens."
- "2009, Stuart Prebble, Grumpy Old Drivers: The Official Handbook, unnumbered page, In the early years it had been very much a series for people I believe are known by the curiously unappealing term ‘petrolheads’. Since most petrolheads are probably out in the evenings, burning up the rubber or the tarmac or whatever it is that petrolheads do, the show had a fairly limited audience."
Etymology
Usage
- Colloquial
- Derogatory
- British usage