Meaning

2 senses

  1. (slang)An aficionado of industrial music.

  2. (dated)An automotive assembly line worker.

Origin

From rivet + -head, from the use of rivets in industrial manufacture.

From rivet + -head, from the use of rivets in industrial manufacture.

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Forms

plural: rivetheads
Singularrivethead
Pluralrivetheads

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
riversiderivetrivierarivuletrizz

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