Meaning of wheelman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A driver of an automobile, especially a getaway vehicle in a criminal enterprise.
2. The steersman on a ship.
3. A cyclist.
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Examples

“For instance, the wheelman in a robbery; he doesn't intend⟳ for anyone to get⟳ killed when he pulls up in front of a liquor store so that his armed complice can rob⟳ the store.”

“Many wheelmen and wheelwomen, riding safeties, tandems and tricycles, stopped there during the evening and we had good opportunity for comparing American and English bicycles […]”

“Old fashioned folks, for whom the horseless vehicle came to late, can but envy wheelmen and wheelwomen as they skim through vista after vista, outstripping one's horse and carriage as a greyhound outstrips a decrepit poodle.”

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