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wheel away

wheel away verb: to run around in celebration.

Verb

wheel away (third-person singular simple present wheels away, present participle wheeling away, simple past and past participle wheeled away)

  1. (idiomatic) To run around in celebration
    • Following an hour of graft that did not include too many glimpses of goal he casually wheeled away having finished David Beckham's inviting cross in the manner of a man totally at home in those kind of positions.2007, Alan Smith, The Daily Telegraph online edition, Goal proves Owen is back in the big timehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/2314782/Goal-proves-Owen-is-back-in-the-big-time.h...
    • Athletic captain Gurpegi charged in at the near post to glance in David Lopez's left-wing corner before wheeling away in delight, ripping off his shirt and celebrating with his team-mates and the ecstatic home fans.2010 November 28, ESPN, Valencia win, Mallorca beat Malaga

Forms of wheel away

third-person singular presentwheels away
present participlewheeling away
past participlewheeled away
pastwheeled away

Questions about wheel away

What does wheel away mean?
Wheel away means to run around in celebration.
What part of speech is wheel away?
Wheel away is a verb.
What is the past tense of wheel away?
The past tense of wheel away is wheeled away.

Words near wheel away in the dictionary

  1. wheel around
  2. wheel arrangement
  3. wheel arrangements
  4. wheel artist
  5. wheel artists
  6. wheel away
  7. wheel brace
  8. wheel braces
  9. wheel breadth
  10. wheel breadths
  11. wheel bug

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