wheel

wheel

slang A very powerful or influential person. He is one of the big wheels in the industry. He can make or break your career in the blink of an eye. Let me get in touch with one of my contacts. She's a wheel in the federal government, so if anyone can help us, it's her.

wheels

slang A car. (Always pluralized.) A: "Nice wheels, Janet!" B: "Thanks, my parents bought it for me for my birthday!" We'll need some wheels in order to make our getaway.
See also: wheel
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

wheel

tv. & in. to drive a car. Let’s wheel my heap over to Marty’s place.

wheels

n. a car; transportation by automobile. I’ll need a ride. I don’t have any wheels.
See also: wheel
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) silly as a wheel
  • a big cheese/wheel
  • a big wheel
  • a cog in the machine
  • a cog in the machine/wheel
  • a cog in the wheel
  • a fifth wheel
  • a fifth/third wheel
  • a fly on the wheel
  • a small cog in a large wheel
  • asleep at the switch
  • asleep at the wheel
  • at the wheel
  • at/behind the wheel
  • balance wheel
  • be asleep at the wheel
  • be at the wheel
  • be breaking a butterfly on a wheel
  • be hell on wheels
  • be sleeping at the wheel
  • behind the wheel
  • big cheese
  • big wheel
  • break a butterfly on a wheel
  • cog in the wheel
  • cog in the wheel or machine
  • die behind the wheel
  • fall asleep at the wheel
  • fifth wheel
  • four wheels
  • German wheel
  • grease the wheels
  • have (one's) shoulder to the wheel
  • have shoulder to the wheel
  • hell on wheels
  • hell-on-wheels
  • if frogs had wheels, they wouldn't bump their butts
  • keep (one's) shoulder to the wheel
  • kick the wheels
  • Meals on Wheels
  • oil the wheels
  • on wheels
  • put (one's) shoulder to the wheel
  • put a spoke in (one's) wheel
  • put a spoke in somebody's wheel
  • put a spoke in someone's wheel
  • put one's shoulder to the wheel
  • put shoulder to the wheel
  • put the wheels in motion
  • put your shoulder to the wheel
  • reinvent the wheel
  • reinvent the wheel, to
  • set (one's) shoulder to the wheel
  • set in motion
  • set of wheels
  • set the wheels in motion
  • shoulder to the wheel, to put/set one's
  • silly as a wheel
  • spin (one's) wheels
  • spin one’s wheels
  • spin one's wheels
  • spin wheels
  • spin your wheels
  • squeaking wheel gets the oil
  • squeaky wheel gets the grease
  • squeaky wheel gets the grease, the
  • take the wheel
  • the squeaking wheel gets the grease
  • the squeaking wheel gets the oil
  • the squeaky wheel gets the grease
  • the squeaky wheel gets the grease/oil
  • the squeaky wheel gets the oil
  • the wheel has come full circle
  • the wheel has come/turned full circle
  • the wheel has turned full circle
  • the wheel of fortune
  • the wheels are in motion
  • the wheels are turning
  • the wheels came off
  • the wheels came off the bus
  • the wheels came off the wagon
  • the wheels come off
  • the wheels fell off
  • the wheels fell off the bus
  • the wheels fell off the wagon
  • the wheels turn
  • third wheel
  • wheel
  • wheel and deal
  • wheel and deal, to
  • wheel around
  • wheel away
  • wheel estate
  • wheel in
  • wheel into
  • wheel into (something or some place)
  • wheel man
  • wheel of fortune, the
  • wheel off
  • wheel out
  • wheel out of
  • wheel out of (something or some place)
  • wheel within a wheel
  • wheels
  • wheels in motion
  • wheels within wheels
  • Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
References in classic literature
Pickwick had been wheeled to the pound, and safely deposited therein, fast asleep in the wheel-barrow, to the immeasurable delight and satisfaction not only of all the boys in the village, but three-fourths of the whole population, who had gathered round, in expectation of his waking.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
Before he could get to it, he heard a scream under the wheels, and saw through the dust the rim passing over the poor wretch's back.
He saw Miss Elphinstone covering her eyes, and a little child, with all a child's want of sympathetic imagination, staring with dilated eyes at a dusty something that lay black and still, ground and crushed under the rolling wheels. "Let us go back!" he shouted, and began turning the pony round.
A waggon locked wheels for a moment and ripped a long splinter from the chaise.
War Of The Worlds
And having commanded, he went aft with his peculiar tigerish leaps to the wheel. While I toiled up the fore-shrouds the Ghost slowly paid off.
Even the wheel, quite a deal higher than the waist, was covered and swept again and again.
And when he put the wheel hard over and the Ghost's bow swung off, there was nothing for the hunters to do but obey and make the best of a risky chance.
The Sea Wolf
Rien ne va plus," proclaimed the croupier as once more he invited the company to stake, and prepared to turn the wheel.
The wheel whirled around and around, with the Grandmother simply quaking as she watched its revolutions.
Her retinue, her reserved compartment in the train, her pile of unnecessary trunks, portmanteaux, and strong-boxes, all helped to increase her prestige; while her wheeled chair, her sharp tone and voice, her eccentric questions (put with an air of the most overbearing and unbridled imperiousness), her whole figure--upright, rugged, and commanding as it was--completed the general awe in which she was held.
On the level or in the street I can be WHEELED along.
On either side of the wheeled chair walked Polina and Mlle.
Without loss of time, the Grandmother gave orders that she should be wheeled through every room in the establishment; of which apartments she praised a few, while to others she remained indifferent.
Gambler
She tried to fling herself below the wheels of the first carriage as it reached her; but the red bag which she tried to drop out of her hand delayed her, and she was too late; she missed the moment.
Anna Karenina
But it differed from human beings in this respect, that instead of hands and feet there grew at the end of its arms and legs round wheels, and by means of these wheels it rolled very swiftly over the level ground.
Ozma of Oz