What is "hubcaps"

Usage examples of "hubcaps".

A row of shining hubcaps on sticks appeared in the front yard of the Burkes’ house.

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.