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wheelman

[weel-muhn, hweel-] / ˈwil mən, ˈʰwil- /
NOUN
navigator
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When Kinch was young, he confided in a later recording, he was a “wheelman,” slang for getaway driver.

From Salon

He said Leasure was the wheelman for the killings outside the Sherman Oaks lounge and in the Highland Park beauty shop.

From Los Angeles Times

Gray agrees to serve as a wheelman for a criminal syndicate — this time, it's a Zimbabwean family known as the Tongais — but only for as long as it takes to get his close friend and his business out of trouble.

From Salon

The former wheelman retired 18 years ago to run a luxury car service in New Orleans.

From Salon

“He was one heck of a wheelman.”

From Los Angeles Times