wheelman
Americannoun
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wheelmen
plural
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Also wheelsman a helmsperson or steersperson.
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a rider of a bicycle, tricycle, or the like.
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Slang.
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a driver, especially a chauffeur.
The mobster's wheelman was also his bodyguard.
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a person who drives the getaway car in a holdup or robbery.
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Origin of wheelman
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“I never thought I was taking a risk. I know how good he is, I’m just fortunate we were able to get him, and man, what a wheelman he is,” said Hendrick.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2021
You see, Bug used to be an expert wheelman, the best getaway driver East of the Mississippi ever since his father left.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2020
Statham’s first tryout as a standalone action star cast him as Frank Martin, a besuited wheelman with an immaculate black BMW and a very particular set of rules.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2019
The wheelman stood behind Captain Ross, clutching a surprisingly tiny, computerized steering wheel.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016
There is no very good stopping-place in Conshohocken, but the wheelman will find a road-house which will serve the purpose of a noonday meal very well.
From Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895 by Various
It’s a murder of the English language in hopes of buying time for the wheelmen to start the getaway car.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2021
They chugged past dim, pine-spiked shores until the sky greyed into day and the wheelmen could pick out the flag-topped buoys that marked their submerged nets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Steadily the wheelmen five “Nor’ by East keep her.”
From How the Flag Became Old Glory by A. C. Valentine
I am not yet to be abandoned entirely to my own resources, however; these hospitable Servian wheelmen couldn't think of such a thing.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens
All routes of this nature must, of course, be divided by wheelmen reading this Department into sections of a length which is most suitable for their own special purposes.
From Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 by Various
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