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gear knob

gear knob is the alternative form of gearknob.

Meaning of gearknob

Noun

gearknob (plural gearknobs)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) A knob that forms the handle for the gear lever on a car with manual transmission.
    • And, anyway, you need to have some money left in the kitty to spend on some of the bewildering but often rather appealing options. Racing stripes. A red gearknob. Plastic wheel arch extensions.cars; a wooden wheel and walnut gearknob were available as dealer options.2011, Jeremy Clarkson, Round the Bend, →ISBN

Forms of gear knob

pluralgear knobs

Words that rhyme with gear knob

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Questions about gear knob

What is gear knob the alternative form of?
Gear knob is the alternative form of gearknob.

Words near gear knob in the dictionary

  1. gear change
  2. gear changes
  3. gear down
  4. gear head
  5. gear heads
  6. gear knob
  7. gear knobs
  8. gear lever
  9. gear levers
  10. gear oil
  11. gear oils

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gear knob (page history and authors); gearknob (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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