- to breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound: Asthma caused him to wheeze.
- to make a sound resembling difficult breathing: The old locomotive wheezed into the station.
- a wheezing breath or sound.
- an old and frequently used joke, saying, story, etc.
- to breathe or utter (something) with a rasping or whistling sound
- to make or move with a noise suggestive of wheezy breathing
- a husky, rasping, or whistling sound or breathing
- a trick, idea, or plan (esp in the phrase good wheeze)
- a hackneyed joke or anecdote
