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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(automotive) 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.
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.
Use wheel man when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wheel man means (automotive) A driver of an automobile, especially a getaway vehicle in a criminal enterprise..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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