clutch artist noun2 •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. — 1956 •A person who drives a motor vehicle, especially one equipped with a manual transmission, in a particularly skillful manner.If you can drive a manual transmission, you have to be a clutch artist to handle brake, accelerator and clutch on an uphill start. — 2006 formsclutch artists