To be sold a promise, concept or ideal only to find you have been deliberately lied to or misled.

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Gi·ar·box-Noun
Gi·ar·box·a·ble-Adjective

See also: Pitchforded - To tell everyone you know well what you are doing and have everything under control right up until you have been caught out. Possibly even beyond.
"Don't be Gearboxed. It can't possibly live up to the hype."
"They're just Gearboxing you!"
by Slaw? February 24, 2013
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The act of leaving a gearbox on the doorstep of someone who annoys you, generally done in Austraila
1) Wayne was being a total wanker so we gearboxed him.

2) Wayne threatened to sue us for gearboxing him, but nothing ever happened.
by femdom December 16, 2010
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queer, faggot, fruit or another type of male knob-gobbler
Look at those two knob gobblers holding hands walking around citadel hill
by Noukiemonster July 09, 2003
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Game developers currently making Brothers in Arms and made Halo PC.
Liek whoamg! Gearbox are leet!
by WereDogfish December 13, 2004
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A slang term for a woman's vagina used in the UK.
I was looking at some bird today, she bent over and I could see right up her gearbox.
by Stevie G89 September 16, 2008
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