wheeze (off)

wheeze (off)
vb
American
to destroy, defeat, frustrate. This ado-lescent usage often occurs in the phrase 'wheeze off someone's gig', meaning to frustrate their efforts, spoil their enjoy-ment, etc.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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