wheeze (n.)

  1. breathing with a husky or whistling sound

  2. (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick; a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat'

    wheeze (v.)

  1. breathe with difficulty

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