tire iron
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tire iron
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
There are even too many signature weapons: Cupid-approved metal arrows are great, so why fuss with a knife and a tire iron and an industrial grape press?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025
The faces are at once classically familiar and deeply strange, like Northern Renaissance portraiture pushed through a Cubist sieve, Hans Memling’s “Portrait of Barbara van Vlaendenbergh” worked over with a tire iron.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2023
Wilson said she ran back to her pickup truck, grabbed a tire iron and flagged down a passing car.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2022
The defense attorney also pointed to Kathleen Newton's two-page written statement for police, which said nothing about having been threatened with a tire iron.
From Fox News • Jun. 23, 2019
The girls napped on running boards, or dipped to get a tire iron out of the trunk.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
