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wheels
noun- a car US, 1959
- “Man has wheels!” Zaida exclaimed. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 15, 1961
- “Car? You don’t have wheels?” “My dad got me an Impala for senior year.” — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 26, 1966
- [S]he explained she wouldn’t be needing her station wagon for a while and if I drove it back to New York, we could save our train fare. I accepted her offer and we cut out in style with wheels. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 44, 1967
- Hey, Curt, you want to bomb around? I want to try out my new wheels. — American Graffiti, 1973
- You know, I’d be embarrassed if I let my wheels go the way you’ve done with this job. — 48 Hours, 1982
- With this pad, the killer wheels, looks like you really cleaned up your act. — Something About Mary, 1998
- I upgraded my wheels at Sammy’s rental to a crimson nine series Beemer [BMW]. — Diran Adebayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 27, 2000
- a record turntable or turntables used by DJs US
From the circular shape and revolving motion. Variants include “wheels of steel” and the singular “wheel”. - Towards the end of the 70s, he [Afrika Bambaataa] began introducing electronic music from Gary Numan and Kraftwerk the the “wheels of steel”. — Alex Ogg, The Hip Hop Years, p. 29, 1999
- I have been behind the wheels of steel on a few occasions. — Wayne Anthony, Spanish Highs, p. 155, 1999
- [T]he Technics 720s, the hip-hopper’s wheels of steel, classic decks[.] — John King, Human Punk, p. 266, 2000
- shoes or boots US
- — Elena Garcia, A Beginner’s Guide to Zen and the Art of Snowboarding, p. 123, 1990: “Glossary”
- the legs, especially a woman’s legs US
- — Current Slang, p. 5, Summer 1966
▶ on wheels
to the extreme US, 1943- And don’t forget that Bix, who was a bitch-on-wheels to Tesch, and all kinds of a virtuoso, was tugging hard at these kids too[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 157, 1946
▶ put wheels on it
used in restaurants to note that the order is a take-away CANADA- — Jack Chambers(Editor), Slang Bag 93 (University of Toronto), p. p. 5, Winter 1993
▶ the wheels are coming off
to be getting out of control; to not be going as planned UK, 1998- Police jargon for a public order situation getting out of hand. The most notable and tragic recent London occasion when “the wheels came off” was the Broadwater Farm Riot. — The Official Encyclopaedia of New Scotland Yard, 1999
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