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I went there with a crazy gear-head named Roger Hudson, who was this short wiry guy with black stubble on his pock-marked face who always acted real tough.
Hey, Boys, Bandits! Jerry Ratch 2010
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There are even two fun projects for my gear-head, car loving son, a License Plate Headboard and a Wheely Neat Nightstand.
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He called a friend, a gear-head with perpetually dirty nails, asked him to look it over.
Reversal 2009
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He called a friend, a gear-head with perpetually dirty nails, asked him to look it over.
Reversal 2009
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I'm probably biased because I'm Australian, and a gear-head, But many of my gear-head friends have taken their partners who despise their mens obsession with cars to see this and its converted them.
This Week In Trailers: Mammoth, The White Ribbon, Love The Beast, Love, Starsuckers | /Film 2009
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Leading this gear-head mediation through its long stretches of lonesome highway are characters stripped down to their basic handles -- James Taylor is known only as the "Driver," Dennis Wilson the "Mechanic,"
Kim Morgan: You Can Never Go Fast Enough: Two-Lane Blacktop 2008
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He was actually more curious about what Tito was doing at the gear-head table.
sidewayz glory Todd Strasser 2006
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He was actually more curious about what Tito was doing at the gear-head table.
sidewayz glory Todd Strasser 2006
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He was actually more curious about what Tito was doing at the gear-head table.
sidewayz glory Todd Strasser 2006
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He was actually more curious about what Tito was doing at the gear-head table.
sidewayz glory Todd Strasser 2006
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At the end of the face, the belt would go round a return drum (known as the ‘gear-head’) and then spill the coal into waiting coal tubs.
Joe Kenyon · Working Underground · LRB 27 November 1997 Joe Kenyon 2020
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