A highly popular and widely pirated automotive TV programme, produced in the UK for BBC Two, and presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. The show is intended to be entertaining, developing running jokes and banter between the hosts, rather than focusing solely on the featured cars. This technique - combined with the perceived attractiveness of the three male hosts - has won it a female as well as male audience, both in the UK and abroad.
"Did you see Top Gear last night?"
"Yeah, that Ascari was classic. Isn't Richard Hammond really cute?"
"Yeah, that Ascari was classic. Isn't Richard Hammond really cute?"
by Fiendish91 December 24, 2007
Considered to be the greatest automotive magazine on television. It is broadcasted on BBC and ITV, and features the humorous Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. Every episode includes a very strange comparison of vehicles (not necessarily cars), which shows how silly the producers really are....
by gplpark92 August 5, 2006
a really really funny program about cars. It used to be all informative but now it is sooooooooo funny! plus its great if your into cars aswell
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person:i like top gear
uva person: i don't, its all about cars and i'm a bus person
person thats not either of the previous 2: doesnt matta! still funny
uva person: i don't, its all about cars and i'm a bus person
person thats not either of the previous 2: doesnt matta! still funny
by twatwakid January 26, 2009
An important rule of thumb to consider throughout life: when a footballer (that's soccer for Americans) buys a particular object, frequents a particular place or anything like it, it's probably time to move on, lest you become considered tasteless by association.
The Top Gear rule states that ultra-expensive supercars that only footballers can afford are not cool, because footballers are most often tasteless wankers.
by kikanjuuneko March 10, 2007
The line of titty owners that stand behind Clarkson, Hammond and May while doing their piece to the camera during filming an episode of the eponymous TV show.
by farge bofflenerp October 26, 2009
Meghan's attempt at cooking dinner was so terribly inedible it was nothing short of a top gear fail.
by P&R2010 March 4, 2011
The theory that excessive watching of the car programme "top gear" by middle aged men can descend into the urge to attend decadent, homoerotic gatherings at car show rooms where men perform sexual role plays based on the relationship of the three presenters and fuck the exhausts of expensive cars.
The Top Gear Effect: "Have been binge watching Top Gear repeats on Dave recently and I keep having this really disturbing dream where I'm out riding horses in the desert dressed as a cowboy with Jeremy Clarkson and then when we pitch a tent. for a night... well I don't want to repeat that part of the dream."
by Louiefook December 23, 2015