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wheel
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n. [from slang big wheel for a powerful person] A person who has an active wheel bit. We need to find a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives. (See wedged , sense 1.) The traditional name of security group zero in BSD (to which the major system-internal users like root belong) is wheel. Some vendors have expanded on this usage, modifying Unix so that only members of group wheel can go root.
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