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creeper gear

creeper gear noun: the lowest gear on a vehicle: especially, a dedicated super-low gear, available in some trucks and tractors, that is even lower than the usual low gear, which is labeled as first gear.

Noun

creeper gear (uncountable)

  1. (trucking, heavy industry) The lowest gear on a vehicle: especially, a dedicated super-low gear, available in some trucks and tractors, that is even lower than the usual low gear, which is labeled as first gear.
    • Near-synonym: low gear
    Synonyms:
    granny gear, LO, low gear

Synonyms of creeper gear

Origin of creeper gear

So called because the vehicle creeps in the mechanical sense of that word: it moves very slowly, such that a person on foot can outwalk it, for example.

Questions about creeper gear

What does creeper gear mean?
Creeper gear means the lowest gear on a vehicle: especially, a dedicated super-low gear, available in some trucks and tractors, that is even lower than the usual low gear, which is labeled as first gear.
What part of speech is creeper gear?
Creeper gear is a noun.

Words near creeper gear in the dictionary

  1. creepdar
  2. creeped
  3. creeped on
  4. creeped out
  5. creeper
  6. creeper gear
  7. creepered
  8. creeperless
  9. creepers
  10. creepest
  11. creepeth

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