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1 definition found From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: wheel 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.