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A lieutenant reported a loud bang he described as a hubcap rolling on the floor — or an air vent being popped onto a roof?

Escape From Alcatraz And A 47-Year Manhunt 2009

The hubcap is the cover on the wheel, and sometimes its got kind of a sporty design.

Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

The hubcap is the cover on the wheel, and sometimes its got kind of a sporty design.

Beacon Street Girls: Fashion Frenzy Annie Bryant 2006

The tail rotor, for instance, had extra blades to make it quieter in the air, and was covered with a disc-shaped device sometimes referred to as a "hubcap."

Thestar.com - Home Page Kenneth Kidd 2011

Delighted to see that Wiki has an entry under "hubcap"

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

The dobro, the resonating guitar with the "hubcap" top, introduced in the late 1920s for playing oozing Hawaiian music, had had a very set, limited role in country, as heard in the fills and comedy novelty sounds brought to Roy Acuff's band by Bashful Brother Oswald (Pete Kirby) and the even-more-intricate playing of Uncle Josh Graves with Flatt & Scruggs.

Jerry Douglas, Irreplaceable Instrumentalist 2008

David Koma, whose metallic, 'hubcap' dresses have also been worn by Cheryl Cole and Beyoncé.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

New Columbia Heights reports that a hubcap bandit may be working the neighborhood.

Kevin 'Bacon'& D.C.'s blogophere Washington Post editors 2010

Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Grand Central Terminal If it's been a while since you taxied from JFK to the island of Manhattan, bridging toward that dramatic Batman skyline, you may find yourself feeling as disoriented as a hubcap wobbling down the street in every wrong direction.

New York Steve Garbarino 2012

The word “outside” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. hubcap Says:

Matthew Yglesias » Mind the Gap 2009