wheels
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: wēlz, IPA(key): /wiːlz/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -iːlz
- Homophones: wheals, weals (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun[edit]
wheels
Noun[edit]
wheels pl (plural only)
- (by metonymy, deriving from meronymy) An automobile or other vehicle; a set of wheels.
- Like my new wheels?
- rolling 18 wheels
- (bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed thigh muscles.
- 1999 March 22, “OB205”, “Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet):
- Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.
OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS!
- 2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins, Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body, HarperCollins, page 76:
- But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels—toned but very feminine.
- 2006 April 30, Jim Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, Human Kinetics Publishers, page 131:
- ...try this big wheels program to pack on muscle to your quads and hams.
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Verb[edit]
wheels
- third-person singular simple present indicative of wheel
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