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wheelman

[weel-muhn, hweel-] / ˈwil mən, ˈʰwil- /
NOUN
navigator
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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

This is the road that is, on the whole, wiser for the wheelman to take.

From Harper's Round Table, July 2, 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

Equestrians and wheelmen were also out in full force, and the presence of so many people set Nan's blood tingling with excitement.

From The Governess by Charles R. Chickering

The Western Massachusetts Association, in addition to a one-mile bicycle race, has a half-mile event for the wheelmen, and Elmer of Chicopee H.-S. is expected to finish first in both of these.

From Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 by Various

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


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