spare tire

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [spair tahyuh r]
- /spɛər taɪər/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [spair tahyuh r]
- /spɛər taɪər/

Definitions of spare tire words

noun spare tire a tire used or kept available as an emergency replacement on a vehicle. 1
noun spare tire Informal. excess fat around the waistline. 1
noun spare tire extra wheel cover 1
noun spare tire fat stomach 1
countable noun spare tire A spare tire is a wheel with a tire on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tire and need to replace one of your wheels. 0
countable noun spare tire If you describe someone as having a spare tire, you mean that they are fat around the waist. 0

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Origin of spare tire

First appearance:

before 1920

One of the 12% newest English words

First recorded in 1920-25

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Parts of speech for Spare tire

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Spare tire

spare tire popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 37% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 59% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

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Synonyms for spare tire

noun spare tire

abdomen — Your abdomen is the part of your body below your chest where your stomach and intestines are.
abdominal region — (anatomy) One of the nine areas that the abdomen is divided into.
bay window — A bay window is a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house.
beer belly — If a man has a beer belly, he has a fat stomach because of drinking too much beer.
belly — The belly of a person or animal is their stomach or abdomen. In British English, this is an informal or literary use.

All 16 Synonyms of spare tire