Meaning of Mechanic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname
2. A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
   historical
3. A surname.
4. Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.
5. A device, method or means; a function.
6. A function, rule or other implementation that dictates gameplay; a ludeme, a feature.
7. A hitman.
   slang
8. A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.

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Examples

“His noble earnestness, his fidelity, his gallant shielding of her, his generous conquest of his own wrong and his own pride for her sake, are simply honourable, manly, and true. Nothing less worthy can be seen through the lustre of such qualities in the commonest mechanic, nothing less worthy can be seen in the best-born gentleman.”

“The lower orders were freer than they had ever been – free […] to choose their own lay preachers, mechanics like the rest of the congregation.”

“This game has a mechanic where if you run toward a ledge you automatically jump off rather than just falling.”

“And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing. Overnight he became the best grunt we had, a real killer, a mechanic.”

“I can do other things beside burglarizing. I'm a first-class crap dealer, I'm a pretty good card mechanic, pretty good dice mechanic.”

“It was so obvious. I mean, all of Nicky's half-assed mechanics, they were real signal happy.”

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