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
This is the legacy bequeathed to him by his father, Anthony “Ant” Montage, another ace wheelman who skipped town when Beauregard was 13.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020
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
But unlike Newman, who took up racing late in life as preparation for the lead in the 1969 classic Winning and willed himself into a first-rate wheelman, Haywood was a natural.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2019
On passing the station the wheelman should turn right and take the next turn to the left.
From Harper's Round Table, June 18, 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
The Belgrade wheelmen have names painted on their bicycles, as names are painted on steamboats or yachts: "Fairy," "Good Luck," and "Servian Queen," being fair specimens.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas
"Very few wheelmen do stop here, as they prefer a hotel farther on, but we are glad to entertain them when they come."
From A Bicycle of Cathay by Lowell, Orson
Eltje Vanderveer smiled and flushed slightly as she noticed it, and then all her attention was concentrated upon the varying fortunes of the flying wheelmen.
From Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy by Munroe, Kirk
