wheelman

plural wheelmen · alternative wheel-man · alternative wheel man

1. automotiveA driver of an automobile, especially a getaway vehicle in a criminal enterprise.

   For instance, the wheelman in a robbery; he doesn't intend for anyone to get killed when he pulls up in front of a liquor store so that his armed complice can rob the store.

   2012, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Bad Faith, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

2. nauticalThe steersman on a ship.
3. datedcyclingA cyclist.

   Many wheelmen and wheelwomen, riding safeties, tandems and tricycles, stopped there during the evening and we had good opportunity for comparing American and English bicycles […]

   1897, American Architect and Architecture, volumes 57-58, page 51

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   Old fashioned folks, for whom the horseless vehicle came to late, can but envy wheelmen and wheelwomen as they skim through vista after vista, outstripping one's horse and carriage as a greyhound outstrips a decrepit poodle.

   1902, Matilda Betham-Edwards, East of Paris, London: Hurst and Blackett, pages 33–34