wheel v.
1. (US) to drive fast, to ride fast.
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]. | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
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. |