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wheelman
[weel-muhn, hweel-]
noun
plural
wheelmenAlso wheelsman a helmsperson or steersperson.
a rider of a bicycle, tricycle, or the like.
Slang.
a driver, especially a chauffeur.
The mobster's wheelman was also his bodyguard.
a person who drives the getaway car in a holdup or robbery.
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
When Kinch was young, he confided in a later recording, he was a “wheelman,” slang for getaway driver.
He said Leasure was the wheelman for the killings outside the Sherman Oaks lounge and in the Highland Park beauty shop.
Gray agrees to serve as a wheelman for a criminal syndicate — this time, it's a Zimbabwean family known as the Tongais — but only for as long as it takes to get his close friend and his business out of trouble.
The former wheelman retired 18 years ago to run a luxury car service in New Orleans.
“He was one heck of a wheelman.”
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