hubcap
noun
a removable cover for the center area of the exposed side of an automobile wheel, covering the axle.
hubcaps
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pluralof hubcap.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
For them, hubcaps and oil drums are as much natural resources as leaves or grasses.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022
They held up their empty metal bowls or hubcaps or whatnot and cheerfully beat them like drums.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
