pit nutter
- noun
- Offensive
:
obseso de las carreras
- He's a real pit nutter when it comes to Formula 1.
Examples
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Only a real pit nutter would camp out all night before a grand prix.
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The pit nutter in the stands waved a huge flag for his favorite racing team.
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Jake is such a pit nutter; he knows every driver's pit stop time by heart.
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Many pit nutters camp out at the racetrack all weekend.
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Jake is such a pit nutter; he knows every driver's pit stop time by heart.
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Only a real pit nutter would camp out all night before a grand prix.
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Many pit nutters camp out at the racetrack all weekend.
Synonyms
675
7.7
A person who is very interested in a particular hobby or subject
1
6.1
A person who loves sports very much and watches games all the time
Antonyms
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7.1
A person who says bad things about someone or something to make them seem less good
How Enthusiastic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The element 'nutter' clearly signals an obsessive or fanatical person, so combining it with a noun gives a cue that this is a type of fanatic. However, the sense of 'pit' here is specialized (the motorsport 'pit' / pit lane) rather than the common meaning 'hole' or 'container', so a B1 learner who only knows the general senses of the constituents would probably not infer the motorsport-specific meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
Pit nutter comes from car racing. The word pit is the place where cars stop for quick work like new tires and fuel, and nutter is a British slang word for someone who is a bit crazy about something. So a pit nutter means 'an extremely enthusiastic fan' who is obsessed with the pits and every race detail.