hubcap
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Origin of hubcap
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Bird Jam has a Cadillac hubcap and nitrogen tank as its body, with wings attached to a miniature banjo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2024
Images of the scene posted on social media show a smashed front window of a building with shards of glass and dark metal lying on the pavement outside, along with a silver metal hubcap.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
Holden, her dead son, keeps reaching out to Danvers through strange signs, including a broken hubcap materializing from nothing.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024
And then we see the SS badge on a hubcap, which tells us that this is going to be a high performance version of the Chevy Blazer.
From The Verge ● Mar. 9, 2022
I came to stand behind them just in time to watch Liam wave his hand in front of the hubcap.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Its custom-made fittings include mink seats, a gold disc on top of the grille and hubcaps carrying his initials.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
The freeway was a dangerous, kinetic collage of spinning wheels and whirling, sparking hubcaps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
The Rogue hoverboard has two wheels with hubcaps that light up and are sold in black, blue, red, pink and purple.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Their dams protect the entrance to their lodges, and they will grab anything, from sticks and mud to hubcaps and pieces of cable, to patch a leak.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022
Outside the palace walls, the women of Gbadolite are squatting in their yards, boiling manioc in salvaged hubcaps, and if you asked them the meaning of Independence they’d scowl and shake a stick at you.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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