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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tire iron¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

But there’s no time to waste, so Elliot puts the animal out of its misery with a tire iron and loads it into the trunk of their rental.

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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?

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He tells me he beat a Black boy with a tire iron and how if I keep getting in his way, that’ll happen to me.

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The four were also charged with robbing a man and beating him with a tire iron in 1976.

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Among other missteps, they texted each other about their exploits and cashed thousands of dimes through Coinstar machines after prying them out of a truck with tire irons.

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