From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhubcaphub‧cap /ˈhʌbkæp/ noun [countable] TTCa round metal cover for the centre of a wheel on a vehicle
Examples from the Corpus
hubcap• He found hubcaps.-He repainted the car a pretty magenta.• It was cream-colored, no hubcaps, with torn seats and a battered trunk.• The Audi came hurtling over the rise, too, one hubcap spinning away from it as it landed.• He bootlegged whiskey, pumped gas, worked in a steel mill handling hot wire, stole hubcaps.• They also ripped off the hubcaps.• I bought flowers for his girlfriends and polished the hubcaps on his car.• He started to spray the hubcaps with what looked like toothpaste.• The hubcaps were already covered with water. 