clutch artist

Definitions

1. 1

   A person who drives a motor vehicle, especially one equipped with a manual transmission,…

   A person who drives a motor vehicle, especially one equipped with a manual transmission, in a particularly skillful manner.

   • [O]n the highway or merely playing around a good dirt track, the engine exhibits loads of good low rmp torque and flexibility from scratch, but sink those tires in sand and you've got to be a real clutch artist.
   • If you can drive a manual transmission, you have to be a clutch artist to handle brake, accelerator and clutch on an uphill start.
   • Donnie’s used to finessing race cars, he was the clutch artist on Larry Miersch’s Huntington Beach, California-based A/Fuel dragster for five years.
2. 2

   A player who performs especially well in crucial situations.

   • Roddy Osborne had set up the score with a 32-yard pass to "clutch artist" Don Watson.
   • Shaq has perhaps the next great point guard in the NBA in Cleveland Cavaliers clutch artist Kyrie Irving.
   • The Chicago Blackhawks . . . will have a slew of decisions to make and contracts to sign. . . . [T]eam captain Jonathan Toews and designated clutch artist Patrick Kane need extensions.

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