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Self-starter

noun

An energetic person with unusual initiative.

An electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine.

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"Self-starter" Quotes from Famous Books

... to admit myself that Chester wasn't any self-starter. I saw he'd have to be cranked by an outsider if he was going to win a place of his own in the New Dawn. And I kept thinking wily, and the next P.M. when Nettie and I was downtown I got my hunch. You know that music store on Fourth Street across from ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... a self-starter in the motordrome of love. He needed cranking. He was that most unpromising of matrimonial material, a shy man with a cautious disposition. If he overcame his shyness, caution applied the foot-brake. If he succeeded in forgetting caution, shyness shut off the ...

— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

... called auto-suggestion, if you want to know, and it is a self-starter, too, and makes the wheels of success go 'round. Step on it! It is good for ...

— The Art of Stage Dancing - The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession • Ned Wayburn

... that self-starter rod bent it, and placed it out of commission, all right," Josh exclaimed, as he drew his machine to the middle of the road, and deliberately prepared to follow after his chums; "but that was only a beginning; the worst is yet to come when ...

— The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line - Or, With the Allies in France • Ralph Marlow

Words linked to "Self-starter" : powerhouse, ball of fire, fireball, human dynamo, internal-combustion engine, starter motor, electric motor, starter, starting motor, ice