wheelman

The former wheelman retired 18 years ago to run a luxury car service in New Orleans.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

“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

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

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

The wheelman, who was an old river pilot, was thoroughly acquainted with what he called the “Yukon flats,” and managed to elude 166 the sandbars and sunken islands with considerable dexterity.

From The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Rudolf Mencl

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

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

The wheelmen would probably retort that, like Goldsmith's sprightly heroine, they "stoop to conquer."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various