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wheels out

wheels out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wheel out.

Meaning of wheel out

Verb

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

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic, often) To employ or bring out (something predictable or perennial).
    • They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wheel, out.
    • There were five in our party and the snow was too rough for ski-landing so the pilot wheeled out the old, fabric, two-engine biplane transport and loaded us on board.1971, Westways, volume 63, page 50

Questions about wheels out

What is wheels out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wheels out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wheel out.

Words near wheels out in the dictionary

  1. wheels of death
  2. wheels of fortune
  3. wheels of life
  4. wheels of steel
  5. wheels of time
  6. wheels out
  7. wheels round
  8. wheels within wheels
  9. wheels-up
  10. wheelset
  11. wheelsets

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