Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
Nickname for a person who uses a wheelchair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, slang
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name
Nickname for a person who uses a wheelchair.
Nickname for Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, derogatory, slang, specifically
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A scale model car created by Hot Wheels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, plural, plural-only
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Synonyms: Hot Wheel
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noun
plural of Hot Wheel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, form-of, plural, slang
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Hot Wheels (“scale model car created by Hot Wheels”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, uncountable
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, wheel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
plural of hot wheel
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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History
From Hot Wheels, an American brand of scale model cars invented and coined by Elliot Handler and introduced by his company Mattel on 18 May 1968; likely from hot rod (“a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster”) + wheels (“an automobile or other vehicle”), as the company was made to produce fantasy hot rods, but also proposed to be from hot (“very good, remarkable, exciting; nice”) + wheels due to the uniqueness of the cars. The proper noun sense, specifically about the American politician Greg Abbott, is from his use of a wheelchair since a paralyzing accident in 1984.
