Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic slang English) A mechanic, often with the specific connotation of an automobile mechanic.
WordNet
n. someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles [syn: automobile mechanic, auto-mechanic, car-mechanic, mechanic]
Wikipedia
Grease Monkey is a comic book created by Tim Eldred. There were two issues published in color by Kitchen Sink Press in 1996, then Image Comics reprinted the first four stories in black and white in 1998. Currently Tor Books has released in book form: the first six stories, with previously unpublished material, and three vignettes. A second book, A Tale of Two Species, was published on the internet in 19 chapters, approximately monthly, starting in October 2007. Both volumes depict life aboard the military space station Fist of Earth, or adjacent smaller spaceships.
Grease Monkey International, Inc. is an independent American franchisor of automotive service centers offering oil changes, preventative maintenance, and other car care services.
Usage examples of "grease monkey".
His dad was a mechanic, so Sam was a grease monkey born and raised.
And then Laura turned to face the bald-headed grease monkey who stood about three inches shorter than her and stared up at her through his yellow goggles like a bullfrog.
While his nano-tatt is as colorful as ever and he still shows a predilection for barracks-room language as colorful as his face, he no longer speaks like the illiterate grease monkey he was just four years ago.
Now he was reduced to a lowly grease monkey, a salesman trying to fit a massive airplane engine into a small airframe.
My hair is naturally mousy brown, but I started bleaching it blond when I decided to stop being a grease monkey.
Out for year, came to California, busted within a month for attempted murder - bar knifing up in Kern County - took a year in the county jail, got extra time for attacking a guard and sundry other bad behaviours, placed in some rehab programme, where he learned auto mechanics, got a job as a grease monkey when he got out, lost it for beating up the boss.