snow tire

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   an automobile pneumatic tire with deep tread to give traction in snow

   Broaderpneumatic tire

Questions about snow tire

What does snow tire mean?

snow tire means "an automobile pneumatic tire with deep tread to give traction in snow".

Is snow tire a common word?

snow tire is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.