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
I hate to repeat myself, but this stumble bum and onetime automotive-leasing magnate was supposed to drive the integrity of the game; instead, he was the wheelman for the owners’ getaway car.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2017
"Hard a port!" repeated the line of officers, till the order was returned by the wheelman.
From Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck by Oliver Optic
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
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If, at the last spurt of a bicycle race, we should call to the wheelmen, "Breathe through the nose!" we could not wonder if our advice remains unheeded.
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann
Steady the wheelmen five "Nor' by east keep her," "Steady," but two alive: How the shells sweep her!
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Frederic Lawrence Knowles
If they do, the interscholastic associations will no doubt follow suit, and then the wheelmen will find themselves, to a certain extent, out of it, if they have not already prepared for separate contests.
From Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 by Various