four-wheeler

four-wheeler
/fawr"hwee"leuhr, -wee"-, fohr"-/, n.
1. a four-wheel vehicle, esp. a hackney carriage.
2. CB and Auto. Slang. a four-wheel automotive vehicle, as a car or small truck, esp. as distinguished from a vehicle having more than four wheels, as a tractor-trailer, or fewer than four wheels, as a motorcycle.
[1840-50]

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