hubcap
Americannoun
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hubcaps
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noun
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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
It was stiff-limbed and awkward, half a hubcap tall, dressed in army fatigues.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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 and rectangular hunks of metal flying forward, any piece of which, at any instant, could crash into me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
For them, hubcaps and oil drums are as much natural resources as leaves or grasses.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
Use what you have until the proverbial hubcaps fall off, and if you do find yourself in a position to replace, consider some of these ideas and options:
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2022
There were metal objects: hubcaps, a pair of rusty scissors, a sparkplug.
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
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