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
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
The wheelman rang the jingle-bell, and the boat soon came down to half-speed.
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
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All routes of this nature must, of course, be divided by wheelmen reading this Department into sections of a length which is most suitable for their own special purposes.
From Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 by Various
Some wheelmen have been credited with seven and eight thousand miles in a single season.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
"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 Orson Lowell
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