Meaning of Hot Wheels | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A scale model car created by Hot Wheels.
   informal, plural, plural-only
2. Nickname for a person who uses a wheelchair.
   derogatory, slang
3. Alternative letter-case form of Hot Wheels (“scale model car created by Hot Wheels”).
   alt-of, uncountable
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, wheel.
   uncountable

Examples

“I would like you to bring me a G. I. Joe, a hot wheels,^([sic]) Movie^([sic]) projector, bike and Spirograph.^([sic])”

“But what is this contraption Greg Donaldson finished a month ago? That, says Donaldson, is the first question most people ask when they spot the red object that looks like a cross between a Hot Wheels and a Star Wars spaceship.”

“Becky glanced briefly at her hand, more interested in the Dirty Dancing soundtrack on the CD player than in poker. Besides, she always brought junk to bet with—her mom was a dental hygienist, and Becky had once again showed up with a bag of Colgate samples and old magazines. "I'll match with a dental floss, and raise you a Hot Wheels and a condom."”

“One night my brother and I had an argument over a Hot Wheels and I remember going to bed wishing I was bigger and stronger so I could beat the tar out of him, I was angry and furious.”

“Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who seemingly made fun of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, is now claiming that her comments referring to him as "Governor Hot Wheels" while speaking at a banquet in Los Angeles on Saturday were not about Abbott's disability, but rather "his terrible policies."”

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