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
He turned to the wheelman after a quick squint toward the ice ahead.
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
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
Steady the wheelmen five "Nor' by east keep her," "Steady," but two alive: How the shells sweep her!
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Bang of the lastlap bell spurred the halfmile wheelmen to their sprint.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
