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View synonyms for four-wheeler
four-wheeler
[ fawr-hwee-ler, -wee-, fohr- ]
noun
- a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
- Citizens Band Radio and Automotive Slang. a four-wheel automotive vehicle, as a car or small truck, especially as distinguished from a vehicle having more than four wheels, as a tractor-trailer, or fewer than four wheels, as a motorcycle.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of four-wheeler1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
A four-wheeler clove its way through the crowd surrounding the gates, and the sentries presented arms to it.
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The four-wheeler moved away over the long winding road to the hills.
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The fun of rapid packing, of saying to Henry (unboundedly amazed), "Call me a four-wheeler!"
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On occasions when he had a petition to deliver he came down, cloaked, in a four-wheeler.
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Miss Fairbrother's modest boxes were placed on a four-wheeler, and the two drove off to Brunswick Terrace.
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