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
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
After him, some 13 years later, came Willy T Ribbs, a rightly cocky wheelman who wound up exploiting his talents in road racing.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2020
He's hell of a wheelman, that old man still gets after it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2011
If any other wheelman chooses to tire his muscles and overstrain his heart for a mere bit of boasting, let him do it.
From Harper's Round Table, October 1, 1895 by Various
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
Before bicycling will ever become a success a meeting must be called for the purpose of allowing the wheelmen and the pedestrian to arrive at some understanding.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
The Western Massachusetts Association, in addition to a one-mile bicycle race, has a half-mile event for the wheelmen, and Elmer of Chicopee H.-S. is expected to finish first in both of these.
From Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895 by Various
Messrs. Wingrave and Gawke, the two most enterprising wheelmen, turn out at 6 a.m. to escort me four miles to the Ganges ferry.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
