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
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
He's hell of a wheelman, that old man still gets after it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2011
The wheelman rang the speed-bell, and then spoke through the tube to the engineer.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by A. B. Shute
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
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
Before bicycling will ever become a success a meeting must be called for the purpose of allowing the wheelmen and the pedestrian to arrive at some understanding.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
Our force was divided into three groups,—one man to each wagon to drive; four to act as wheelmen; father and the women, on foot or horseback, to drive the stock.
From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by F. N. (Frederick N.) Wilson
