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• n  breathing with a husky or whistling sound
• n  (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick
  a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat
• v  breathe with difficulty

• The great garment wheeze blows over Micronesia.
• It was also the season in which the ancient wheeze about the water boy came true.
• In fact, the next few months could be remembered as the last wheeze of 20th-century copyright law.

News & Articles

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• Camp for asthmatic children offered in August
  Camp We-No-Wheeze is celebrating 20 years of providing a safe camp experience for children with asthma at Camp Friendship in Annandale.
  June 16, 2013 - St. Cloud Times
• Nothing to sneeze at
  Shannon Health and Wellness hosted its annual Sneeze and Wheeze Camp for children who have asthma earlier this week at Barnhart Lake Ranch.
  June 15, 2013 - The San Angelo Standard-Times
• Heat spell breaks in Y-S; temps returning to normal
  The record-setting, triple-digit heat is gone, and along with people, trees couldn't be happier. "When you get over 90, near 100, you can almost hear the trees wheeze," said Franz Niederholzer, farm adviser with the UC Cooperative Extension. Monday saw overcast skies with scattered...
  June 11, 2013 - Appeal-Democrat

Quotes

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• David Cameron in ePolitix
  It used to be said that Labour were the party of the NHS. Not any more,said Cameron. "They've turned the NHS into a vast, inhuman machine, a pen-pusher's paradise at the mercy of the management consultants' latest wheeze...... Labour have...
• Nick Clegg in Telegraph.co.uk
  ...Clegg, the Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman, said the Home Office was in such disarray and Mr Reid so much on the defensive, that the announcement was "just a short-term wheeze to gain a few headlines and get them out of a hole".
• Tom Waits in The South African Star
  Like Tom says: "At the centre of this record is my voice. I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce."