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wheeler and dealer

wheeler and dealer is the alternative form of wheeler-dealer.

Meaning of wheeler-dealer

Noun

wheeler-dealer (plural wheeler-dealers)

  1. (informal) A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator.
    • Seated at separate tables to underscore their differing levels of involvement with indicted savings and loan wheeler-dealer Charles Keating, the five were fighting to regain reputations earned in a lifetime of public service.1990 November 26, Ed Magnuson, Hays Gorey, “You Sold Your Office”, in Time

Forms of wheeler and dealer

pluralwheelers and dealers

Questions about wheeler and dealer

What is wheeler and dealer the alternative form of?
Wheeler and dealer is the alternative form of wheeler-dealer.

Words near wheeler and dealer in the dictionary

  1. wheeled around
  2. wheeled away
  3. wheeled out
  4. wheeled round
  5. wheeler
  6. wheeler and dealer
  7. Wheeler County
  8. wheeler dealer
  9. wheeler dealers
  10. Wheeler Heights
  11. Wheeler's bluegrass

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wheeler and dealer (page history and authors); wheeler-dealer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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