mechanic

1. A person who fixes things, esp. cars, planes and bicycles.
2. A cliched term for an "assassin" in movies that has no equivalent in the real world.

SKIP: Hey Joe, I hear you're a mechanic. Could you please kill my neighbor's cat?

JOE: What?! I fix cars, ya moron! What do you think this is, a Michael Bay movie?

by Evil Paul December 28, 2010

mechanic

A card-dealer at high-stakes poker who is adroit at manipulating the cards in the deck to favor one player over another.

"Don't worry kid," Shooter said, "No one will know. I'm one helluva mechanic."

-- Richard Jessup, "The Cincinnati Kid"

by Guy Dalziel April 13, 2006

mechanic

A person whom is skilled in the use of tools and repair or fabrication of mechanical devices.
Not necessarily just cars and trucks.

The term mechanic but a few generations ago was a skill level in the industrial trades. covering many different lines of work.

I'm a mechanic, but wish to become a machinist and eventually a tool maker.

by eddie6775 December 31, 2010

mechanic

Once aided in saving the universe by informing Captain that somebody had set up us the bomb, thus causing Captin to launch, or "take off", every zig.

Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.

by Baseologist July 3, 2003

mechanic

A paid assassin who "fixes" a problem, i.e., offs someone who has been causing trouble for the person paying the assassin.

You wantsta rub him out? You hires yourself a mechanic. Easy.

by Stanley Kunitz October 2, 2005

Mechanic

The first person that you want as a friend, the last person that you want as an enemy.

Joe: My Trans Am's pretty sweet but I really don't know diddly squat about cars. I need to befriend a good mechanic so I can keep her running sweet.

Jon: I punched a dude at the bar last Friday. Little did I know that he would be the mechanic that would be doing my brake job last Monday. Now I'm laid up in the hospital with a fractured skull and my car's somewhere between a crusher and a foundry.

by Yeret March 12, 2017

Mechanic

Someone who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data from those of questionable knowledge.

It's a good thing Tim hired a mechanic, cuz he doesn't know what the fuck he is doing.

by American-Kiwi17 February 7, 2017