tire iron

American  

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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Etymology

Origin of tire iron

First recorded in 1850–55

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tire iron

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

Now the slice, sitting on the grid, which was held in place by the tire iron, was positioned in the microscope, centered in the beam of electrons.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston