petrol-head

petrol-head
n
a car enthusiast. The term is heard both in Britain and Australia and was given wider currency in Britain from the 1990s by its usage in motoring maga-zines and such television programmes as BBC TV's Top Gear.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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