wheels

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 also:
  • wheel
  • biggest frog in the puddle
  • before (one) can blink
  • blink of an eye
  • roll off
  • on wheels
  • roll down
  • big wheel
  • a big cheese/wheel
  • a big wheel
References in classic literature
Along the margin came those who were on foot threatened by the wheels, stumbling in the ditches, blundering into one another.
The young officer salutes again, wheels his horse, and rides straight toward the crest of the hill.
She looked at the lower part of the carriages, at the screws and chains and the tall cast-iron wheel of the first carriage slowly moving up, and trying to measure the middle between the front and back wheels, and the very minute when that middle point would be opposite her.
Then the creatures shook their front wheels at Dorothy in a threatening manner, and it seemed they were able to speak as well as to make their dreadful outcries, for several of them shouted:
The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock.
"One dark night he was galloping home as usual, when all of a sudden the wheel came against some great heavy thing in the road, and turned the gig over in a minute.
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.
They at last succeeded in getting the upper hand of these untoward streams; only, in consequence of the loosening of the soil, the wheel partly gave way, and a slight partial settlement ensued.
On the level or in the street I can be WHEELED along.
The victim finally arrived, bound to the tail of a cart, and when he had been hoisted upon the platform, where he could be seen from all points of the Place, bound with cords and straps upon the wheel of the pillory, a prodigious hoot, mingled with laughter and acclamations, burst forth upon the Place.
This time the old woman told her to go the next full moon to the mill-pond, and to spin there with a golden spinning- wheel, and then to leave the spinning-wheel on the bank.
IN WHICH I HEAL A BICYCLE AND COME TO THE WHEEL OF PLEASURE
Wheel down, wheel down to southward; oh, Gooverooska, go!
Oh, just is the Wheel!' He blessed them in detail - the great glaciers, the naked rocks, the piled moraines and tumbled shale; dry upland, hidden salt-lake, age-old timber and fruitful water-shot valley one after the other, as a dying man blesses his folk; and Kim marvelled at his passion.
Wolf Larsen nodded approval and relinquished the wheel to me.