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on wheels

on wheels prepositional phrase: to a large degree, excessively.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (figuratively, postpositional, slang) To a large degree, excessively.
    • a bitch on wheels
    • Last summer would have been a bitch on wheels if it hadn't been for my adorable and patient husband, Mark Frauenfelder, to whom I give my biggest thanks.1996, Carla Sinclair, Net chick: a smart-girl guide to the wired world, Henry Holt, →ISBN, Acknowledgments
  2. (figuratively) Mobile; able to be moved; especially, synonym of on the move.
    • The order was written. In less than ten days everything was "on wheels" and the whole body of these Sioux [was] on the move to the country they had indicated, and the Secretary of the Interior says, naively, in his report for 1868, "The Indians were found to be quite determined to move westward...1881, Helen Hunt Jackson, chapter V, in A Century of Dishonor
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, wheels. (Having wheels affixed to the bottom, and so transportable; synonym of wheeled).

Questions about on wheels

What does on wheels mean?
On wheels means to a large degree, excessively.
What part of speech is on wheels?
On wheels is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on wheels in the dictionary

  1. on velvet
  2. on view
  3. on watch
  4. on what planet
  5. on what score
  6. on wheels
  7. on wiki
  8. on wing
  9. on with you
  10. on yer bike
  11. on your bike

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