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tire iron

noun

  1. a short length of steel with one end flattened to form a blade, used as a crowbar for removing tires from wheel rims.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tire iron1

First recorded in 1850–55

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Example Sentences

And she memorably threatens her boys with a tire iron when they aim to strike out on their own.

He congratulated me on having lived for a week bareheaded in East Texas without getting beaten with a tire iron.

They were first beaten with a tire iron, and then the guards rubbed chili powder on their welts.

With the tire iron she split the gas tank and caught as much of the sharp-smelling fluid as she could in the emptied can.

Across these supports are laid other pieces of the tire iron.

Jack, holding a heavy tire iron in his hand, leaped forward toward the two girls.

This is formed of two heavy oak boards shod with tire iron, sloping upward and backward, attached to a pair of cultivator wheels.

In the tool compartment of the wreck she located a tire iron.

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