wheel v.
1. (US) to drive fast, to ride fast.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Exploits and Adventures (1934) 225: The whole squadron then wheeled off, and I saw them no more. | |
| Neon Wilderness (1986) 115: When we got in the car Johnny looked white too and I really wheeled out of there. | |
| Walk on the Wild Side 256: I wheeled eighty an hour out to her place, cleaned out every bit of her jewelry and the husband’s too. | |
| Can’t Be Satisfied 132: Muddy wheeled to the hospital, but Pot was graveyard dead before they arrived. |
2. to ride a bicycle or similar pedal-powered vehicle; thus wheeling n.
 | Canterbury Pilgrimage n.p.: The ugly barracks and pretty cottages by which we wheeled [F&H]. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Boy’s Own Paper 24 Aug. 738: Five days’ wheeling will bring you to a shanty owned by my pal. |
3. (US black) to drive an automobile.
| (ref. to 1920s) Over the Wall 167: I wheeled along in a rented heap. | |
| Neon Wilderness (1986) 223: The squad spotted him wheeling idly back and forth around the northwest entrance to Humboldt Park. | |
| Rap Sheet 164: Whenever we had to use a hot car, we would wheel into some big city and case out the warehouses. | |
| Scene (1996) 105: He saw Davis wheel the unmarked sedan expertly. | |
| Cop Team 23: Telano wheeled the car for another block. | |
| Grease 165: Leo just nodded and wheeled out. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Conversations on a Homecoming (1986) 25: Well, I shifted this Judy at a dance in Seapoint and wheeled her back to the Strand. | |
| Night People 33: As he wheeled along he decided that it would be the worst condition in the world to become utterly anonymous. | |
| I, Fatty 159: He heard I was ‘wheeling to San Fran.’. | |
| Razorblade Tears 56: Ike [...] parallel-parked [the truck] with surprising ease. ‘You know how to wheel this thing, don’t you?’. |
4. to drive someone, as in a taxi.
| On Broadway 14 Apr. [synd. col.] Sherman Billingsley wheeling his latest heiress in Central Park. | |
| Rivers of Blood 50: Okay, said the driver, he'd wheel them down. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 10: Planting his deaf and dumb in the back seat he asked the driver to wheel him over to Balmain. |
In phrases
(US black) to talk, esp. in a persuasive, fluent manner.
| Jives of Dr. Hepcat (1989) 8: He is known by the way he can wheel a spiel burp a chirp or ball a while! If you put him in power you can be in the groove each and every hour. |
(orig. US) of a person or an object, to bring in to or remove from a meeting, an interview etc; esp. in imper. wheel one in, bring one in!
| Knocknagow 150: Wheel out for a half-pint. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | Fire Trumpet I 100: Wheel up those chops. Sharp’s the word. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 22 July 24/3: And the people are wondering why stock is at a high price, and yelling for the execution of cocky because he doesn’t wheel up butter as usual. | |
| (con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 303: Wheeled Up, To Be: To be brought before an officer for an offence. | |
| Buckaroo’s Code (1948) 8: Then he wheeled out of the saloon. | |
| Mr Love and Justice (1964) 64: Just wheel him in, constable, will you? | |
| Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 11: Wheel him in. | |
| Guardian G2 26 Oct. 17: Fairstein should be able to wheel out more than a few choice anecdotes. |
(US campus) to make a visit, to travel.
| Campus Sl. Mar. 7: wheel on over – to visit. |