tire iron

1. 1.

   hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel

   Synonymstire tool

   Broaderhand toollever

Questions about tire iron

What does tire iron mean?

tire iron means "hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel".

What is another word for tire iron?

Close synonyms include tire tool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tire iron a common word?

tire iron 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.