Crossword clues for hubcap
hubcap
- Spinning thing on a tricked-out car
- One of a car quartet
- One might spin, on a fancy car
- One may be thrown at a pothole
- Loss caused by a pothole strike
- Frequently stolen car item
- Decorative disk on a car
- Decorative disk for a Dodge
- Decorative disc on a wheel
- Cover for centre of a car's wheel
- Common place for a car's name, once
- Auto part often found along the road
- A pothole may cause the loss of one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A decorative and protective disk that covers the hub of a motor car wheel
WordNet
n. cap that fits over the hub of a wheel
Wikipedia
A hubcap, rim, wheel cover or wheel trim is a decorative disk on an automobile wheel that covers at least a central portion of the wheel, called the hub. An automobile hubcap is used to cover the wheel hub and the wheel fasteners to reduce the accumulation of dirt and moisture. It also has the function of decorating the car.
A "hubcap" is technically the small cover over the center of the wheel, while a "wheel cover" is usually a decorative metal or plastic disk that snaps or bolts onto and covers the entire face of the wheel. Cars with stamped steel wheels often use a full wheel cover that conceals the entire wheel. Cars with alloy wheels or styled steel wheels generally use smaller hubcaps, sometimes called center caps. Alternatively, wheel cover refers to an accessory covering an external rear-mounted spare tire (also known as a spare tire cover) found on some off-road vehicles.
Hubcap was the name of four fictional Autobots in the Transformers universes.
Hubcap may refer to:
- Hubcap, a decorative disk on an automobile wheel that covers at least a central portion of the wheel
- Hubcap, several characters and toys in the Transformers series
- " Hubcap", an alternative name for the eponymous 1996 album by Bob Mould
- "Hubcap", a song by Conor Oberst from his 1993 album Water
- "Hubcap", a song by Sleater-Kinney from their 1996 album Call the Doctor
Usage examples of "hubcap".
The one who remembered a Denise Watson was building a sculpture out of hubcaps, welding them together.
A row of shining hubcaps on sticks appeared in the front yard of the Burkes’ house.
He does not know we have guns and mortars lined up nearly hubcap to hubcap and base plate to base plate all across the breadth of the front.
While he was drinking out of a hubcap, a few of the boys found some health food in a trash can that he liked just fine, and one of them bought me a Big Mac.
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In such a masculine household, Tessie had begun to feel like the odd woman out and saw herself in ten years’ time imprisoned in a world of hubcaps and hernias.
With his handkerchief he polishes the spoked hubcaps and the headlamps.
The powerful high beams picked up sprays of broken glass in the street, as well as nails, shards of metal, old hubcaps, tin cans, a flattened pair of men’s underpants.
When the detectives passed the hubcap stall again they saw that most of the stock had been locked away and the few hubcaps left on the counter were rusty and scarcely worth stealing.
Then he did the same with a tire, a twisted bicycle, six hubcaps, and a little red wagon.
The yard beyond the small house held a phantasmagoria of painted wooden figures, galloping horses, dogs balanced on wheels, a row of chrome hubcaps on sticks.
If you choose thieving as a profession, shoot for hubcaps instead of the Crown Jewels.
Never half as fast as I hoped and prone to throwing rods and breaking axles, it was nonetheless a pretty car in dark green metallic paint with the louvers of the hood filled in, moon ripple disk hubcaps, lowered in the back and touched off with teardrop fender skirts.
Never half as fast as I hoped and prone tothrowing rods and breaking axles, it was nonetheless a pretty car indark green metallic paint with the louvers of the hood filled in, moonripple disk hubcaps, lowered in the back and touched off with teardropfender skirts.
Despite the minimal entrance charge of one dollar per person, not many travelers stopped at the old station on State Route 163 to view Harry’s minimuseum of pickled rattlers, scavenged hubcaps, rusting license plates, Lucite-embedded tarantula paperweights, lovingly tended succulents, and other engaging detritus of the desert.