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wheelman

[weel-muhn, hweel-] / ˈwil mən, ˈʰwil- /
NOUN
navigator
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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,” Hendrick said.

From Washington Post Nov. 7, 2021

“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

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

Small floes were avoided by no effort of the wheelman and thin ice, formed overnight, was ripped as satin by a knife.

From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage

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

Steadily the wheelmen five “Nor’ by East keep her.”

From How the Flag Became Old Glory by A. C. Valentine

The “Ripley Road,” as it is generally known among wheelmen, is throughout the year, but more especially in the spring and summer months, alive with cycles and noisy with the ringing of cycle-bells.

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

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 Kirk Munroe




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