wheelman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A 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.
  2. The steersman on a ship.
  3. A cyclist. dated
    — 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 […]

词形变化

wheelmen plural wheel-man alternative wheel man alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English wheelman
From wheel + -man.
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