heelers

Sunday evening, without thinking, the wife calls the heelers for their bedtime "out".

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2009

After finding a shady place to park the heelers, that is.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

The scruffy black thing and the heelers are my friends.

Crikey » Canberra Calling 2009

What was the tragic lot of a widow and starving children compared with keeping promises with greedy "heelers"?

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

When his "kid-glove" friends laughed at him for deliberately choosing to leap into the political mire, he told them that the governing class ought to govern, and that not they themselves but the bosses and "heelers" were the real governors of New York City.

Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

I soon became on good terms with a number of the ordinary "heelers" and even some of the minor leaders.

III. Practical Politics 1913

I soon became on good terms with a number of the ordinary "heelers" and even some of the minor leaders.

An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913

Nye, formerly police commissioner in New York City, had arrived a short time before, and with his party of retainers ( "heelers" we would call them now), had made an imposing entrance.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Nye, formerly police commissioner in New York City, had arrived a short time before, and with his party of retainers ( "heelers" we would call them now), had made an imposing entrance.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Ramón had been a young subordinate of the _Ayuntamiento_, he had met and liked the man, and taking him into the ranks of his "heelers," had promoted him rapidly to be chief of staff.

The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897