Hot Wheels

Meanings

1. A scale model car created by Hot Wheels.

1. Nickname for a person who uses a wheelchair.
2. Nickname for Greg Abbott, governor of Texas

1. plural of Hot Wheel

1. Alternative letter-case form of Hot Wheels (“scale model car created by Hot Wheels”).
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, wheel.

1. plural of hot wheel

Etymology

From Hot Wheels, an American brand of scale model cars invented and coined by Elliot Handler and introduced by his company Mattel on 18 May 1968; likely from hot rod (“a passenger vehicle modified to run and/or accelerate faster”) + wheels (“an automobile or other vehicle”), as the company was made to produce fantasy hot rods, but also proposed to be from hot (“very good, remarkable, exciting; nice”) + wheels due to the uniqueness of the cars. The proper noun sense, specifically about the American politician Greg Abbott, is from his use of a wheelchair since a paralyzing accident in 1984.