four-wheel·er

[fawr-hwee-ler, -wee-, fohr-]
noun
1.
a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
2.
Citizens Band Radio and Automotive Slang. a four-wheel automotive vehicle, as a car or small truck, especially as distinguished from a vehicle having more than four wheels, as a tractor-trailer, or fewer than four wheels, as a motorcycle.

Origin:
1840–50

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four-wheeler

noun
a hackney carriage with four wheels 
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