fifth gear

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fifth gear (countable and uncountable, plural fifth gears)

  1. The fifth of the gears of a transmission; in many motor vehicles built in the 1970s or later, it is the top gear, being the overdrive gear, although in the 21st century some vehicles have transmissions with yet more gears (e.g., 6, 7, 8), among both manual transmissions and automatic transmissions.
    Synonym: fifth (elliptically)
    Coordinate terms: low gear, first gear, second gear, third gear, fourth gear; top gear, overdrive; angel gear, neutral

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