Meaning:
A superfluous person
Examples:
- The front axle is a turn table steering axle with fifth wheel.
- I don't want to be the fifth wheel.
- And I just feel like a fifth wheel.
- Where's the fifth wheel?
- Wouldn't she be a fifth wheel?
- That can on the fifth wheel there.
- I'm the fifth wheel.
- Dimensions of standard fifth wheel couplings (see Table 11)
- Dimensions of standard fifth wheel couplings (see Figure 16)
- The chassis is fitted with a ‘fifth wheel’.