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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(colloquial) A person who is overly reliant on the use of their car, resisting any suggestion to use other means of transport..
2000, Chris Baker, Kokopu Dreams, Huia Publishers, New Zealand, page 87, There were four of them, old-style petrolheads, with greasy jeans and leather jackets. Each had a rifle trained on the pair. They looked barely out of their teens.
2009, Stuart Prebble, Grumpy Old Drivers: The Official Handbook, unnumbered page, In the early years it had been very much a series for people I believe are known by the curiously unappealing term ‘petrolheads’. Since most petrolheads are probably out in the evenings, burning up the rubber or the tarmac or whatever it is that petrolheads do, the show had a fairly limited audience.
Use petrolhead when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Petrolhead means (colloquial) A person who is overly reliant on the use of their car, resisting any suggestion to use other means of transport..
Common synonyms include car brain, revhead, motorhead, gearhead.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
2000, Chris Baker, Kokopu Dreams, Huia Publishers, New Zealand, page 87, There were four of them, old-style petrolheads, with greasy jeans and leather jackets. Each had a rifle trained on the pair. They looked barely out of their teens.
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