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
After him, some 13 years later, came Willy T Ribbs, a rightly cocky wheelman who wound up exploiting his talents in road racing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2020
He's hell of a wheelman, that old man still gets after it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2011
The wheelman intending to make this run should examine the map of Brooklyn published in last week's Round Table.
From Harper's Round Table, June 11, 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
Old-fashioned folks, for whom the horseless vehicle came too late, can but envy wheelmen and wheelwomen as they skim through vista after vista, outstripping one's horse and carriage as a greyhound outstrips a decrepit poodle.
From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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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