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garageman

American  
[guh-rahzh-man, -rahj-, gar-ij-, -ahzh-] / gəˈrɑʒˌmæn, -ˈrɑdʒ-, ˈgær ɪdʒ-, -ɑʒ- /

noun

  • garagemen
    plural
  1. a person who works in a garage, as a mechanic or attendant.


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Etymology

Origin of garageman

First recorded in 1915–20; garage + -man

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When the battery goes bad, a garageman replaces the dead cell.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next morning a garageman reported that Senator Reynolds & friends, annoyed by the patter of rain on their roof, had left in a taxicab, spent the night at a hotel.

From Time Magazine Archive

A portable traffic light that can be set up in the center of the street and operated from the sidewalk has been developed by J. R. Vissing, a Jeffersonville, Ind. garageman.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the second time within a month, Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, inventor's heiress who two years ago sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation, was separated from her garageman husband, Ronald Gay.

From Time Magazine Archive

I got a heavy canvas lining, and the garageman patched and vulcanized and sold me a variety of appliances.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

Rich But Honest tells how two poor working girls jilt their garagemen steadies for life on the stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the next 60 days he was victimized by garagemen who were as efficient at stripping him of money as they were inefficient at fixing his car.

From Time Magazine Archive

Farmers, garagemen, merchants, traders piled in with their own vehicles.

From Time Magazine Archive

In plain-spoken letters to the White House the cleaners and garagemen all gave the same reason: The benefits of a code had been taken away and only the burdens remained.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some garagemen are said to be blaming new additives in gasoline and lubricating oil.

From The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones

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