Meanings
- figurativelypluralplural onlyAnything designed to make something easier for a novice.
Kick off the training wheels, Corporal. He's good to go.
2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Arrival1 more example
Yet as with Booksmart, the summer's earlier riff on that Apatovian classic, there are times when Good Boys feels a little too nice to actually be uproarious. In more ways than one, it's the training wheels for a better comedy—a slightly edgier and funnier one.
2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021
- pluralplural of training wheel
Origin
From training wheel + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and regular plurals of nouns).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish apuvälineet, apupyörät
- apuvälineetanything designed to make something easier for a novice
- apupyörätanything designed to make something easier for a novice
Polish pomoc
- pomocanything designed to make something easier for a novice
Cite this entry
training wheels. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/training%20wheels
“training wheels.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/training%20wheels. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “training wheels,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/training%20wheels.
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