grease-monkey

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“During my second week here I got a job with the Ryan Company, working in the hangar half-days, Saturdays and Sundays, as a grease-monkey.”

““I left you a rather trim and attractive young woman. And certainly clean⟳. What has happened to you? You look⟳ like⟳ a grease-monkey, Jan.””

“Where Babcock has proprietary technologies, they will be preserved and developed, in so far as they help⟳ to give⟳ the company an edge over its rivals. But make⟳ no mistake⟳, if Parker and Salmon have⟳ their way, boiler suits are the workwear of yesteryear at Babcock. Graduates, not grease-monkeys, are the typical employees of the future.”

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