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单词 petrolhead
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Definition of petrolhead in English:

petrolhead

noun ˈpɛtr(ə)lhɛd
British informal
  • A car fanatic.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You get a load of yuppie petrolheads in fast cars [who] career across a series of foreign countries, dodging indigenous police forces and smashing speed limits.
    • From drag racing to time-trialling or simply roaming the city streets, there's enough here to keep petrolheads happy for days.
    • If ever there was a device that so perfectly excites the petrolhead to the complete astonishment of lentil-lovers, it's the sports exhaust.
    • To most of the 80,000 petrolheads who will fill the stands at the Kent circuit, A1 is another reason to spend Sunday afternoons watching cars whizzing round in circles.
    • Nowadays, the sport does not attract such attention but has lost none of its allure for petrolheads of all ages because rallycross is a unique spectacle that combines the best of the rallying and circuit-racing worlds.

Origin

1980s (originally Australian): from petrol + -head2.

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