four-wheeler

[ fawr-hwee-ler, -wee-, fohr- ]

/ ˈfɔrˈʰwi lər, -ˈwi-, ˈfoʊr- /

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noun

a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.

Citizens Band Radio and Automotive Slang. a four-wheel automotive vehicle, as a car or small truck, especially as distinguished from a vehicle having more than four wheels, as a tractor-trailer, or fewer than four wheels, as a motorcycle.

Words nearby four-wheeler

four-striper, four-stroke, four-way, four-wheel, four-wheel drive, four-wheeler, four-wheeling, fourbagger, fourball, fourchette, fourché

Origin of four-wheeler

First recorded in 1840–50

Examples from the Web for four-wheeler

And, when you've got them all together, tell the porter to find you a four-wheeler.
The Little Warrior|P. G. Wodehouse
Just then a four-wheeler, which Trevor had hailed, came up, and he handed her in.
Thereby Hangs a Tale|George Manville Fenn
I saw her and her maid into a four-wheeler, and I saw their luggage on the top.
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2)|Harry Furniss
But for a four-wheeler as takes families and their luggages, he's the very horse.
At the Back of the North Wind|George MacDonald

These and other removals did not necessitate the use of a pantechnicon; a four-wheeler sufficed on each occasion.
The Story of Louie|Oliver Onions