The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tire iron \Tire" iron\, n. a short steel bar with one end flattened so as to form a blade, used to remove rubber tires from the rim of a wheel.
Wiktionary
alt. A tool used for installing or remove an automotive wheel, in the form of bar made of strong metal, with a chisel end for prying off the hubcap and a socket wrench end for loosening or tightening lug nuts. n. A tool used for installing or remove an automotive wheel, in the form of bar made of strong metal, with a chisel end for prying off the hubcap and a socket wrench end for loosening or tightening lug nuts.
WordNet
n. hand tool consisting of a lever that is used to force the casing of a pneumatic tire onto a steel wheel [syn: tire tool]
Wikipedia
A tire iron (also tire lever or tire spoon) is a specialized metal tool used in working with tires. Tire irons have not been in common use for automobile tires since the shift to the use of tubeless tires in the late 1950s.
Bicycle tire irons are still in use for those tires which have a separate inner tube, and can have a hooked C-shape cut into one end of the iron so that it may be hooked on a bicycle spoke to hold it in place.
Usage examples of "tire iron".
Gretchen went to work on the glass with her tire iron while Pete sprinted to open the trunk.
He snatched up a tire iron, holding it by the pry-bar end, and kicked over the stack of tires.
H they intended to hide the tire iron at the Tuley-Belle, it might never turn up.
So what if he sets me on fire and bashes my head in with a tire iron.
Weren't you afraid that in the heat of the moment the guy with the tire iron would take a swing at you?
Middle-Aged Suit was pressed against the side of his station wagon, and in a moment the tire iron was going to start swinging and the blood was going to start flying.
She was going to kill me, but I clobbered her with a tire iron and stole her car.
Wouldn't be able to put up much of a fight -- though, she thought with wry amusement, the tire iron had the potential to be a great equalizer.