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Wheelman

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A driver of an automobile, especially a getaway vehicle in a criminal enterprise.

    "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."

  2. 2
    The steersman on a ship.
  3. 3
    A cyclist. dated

    "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 […]"

Etymology

From wheel + -man.

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