different between wheels vs hives

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?lz, IPA^(key): /wi?lz/
• Homophones: wheals, weals (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

wheels

1. plural of wheel

Noun

wheels pl (plural only)

1. (by meronymy) An automobile or other vehicle; a set of wheels

   • Like my new wheels?
   • rolling 18 wheels

2. (bodybuilding, slang) Well-developed thigh muscles.
   • 1999 March 22, “OB205”, "Re: Freakiest Bodybuilder?", misc.fitness.weights, Usenet

     Martin: Just for legs, Tom Platz in his heyday has never been approached.

     OB205: I totally agree with this, even to this day no one can beat those WHEELS!

   • 2004 December 28, Mark Jenkins and Jeff O’Connell, The Jump Off: 60 Days to a Hip-Hop Hard Body, page 76, HarperCollins

     But Mary J. goes all-out during big leg day, and look at her wheels—toned but very feminine.

   • 2006 April 30, Jim Stoppani, Encyclopedia of Muscle & Strength, page 131, Human Kinetics Publishers

     ...try this big wheels program to pack on muscle to your quads and hams.

See also

• guns

Verb

wheels

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wheel

Anagrams

• Lehews, WelshE, shewel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?vz/
• Rhymes: -a?vz

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain, but frequently connected with heave, even if such a derivation is phonologically difficult.

Noun

hives pl (plural only)

1. Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions.

Synonyms

• urticaria
• nettle-rash

Translations

Etymology 2

See hive

Noun

hives

1. plural of hive

Verb

hives

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hive

Anagrams

• Shive, shive