TIRE (for a vehicle)
NOUNS
► ADOLPH GOBELS second-hand automobile tires → 1937 sl.
► BALDHEAD in automotive repair: a bald tire → 1937-41 US sl.
► BALDY a worn automobile tire having little or no tread left → 1967 US sl.
► BALONEY ► BOLOGNA ► BOLOGNY ► BOLONEY ► BOLONY an automobile or truck tire → 1934 US sl. (Bk.)
► BOOTS tires → 1969 US high school sl. (Bk.)
► CALIFORNIA TIRES tires with little or no tread remaining → 1971 US trucking sl.
► DOROTHY a tire → 1992 UK rhyming sl. – from the name of Welsh torch-singer Dorothy Squires; always used in reduced form
► DOUGHNUT a tire, esp. a spare or temporary tire considered to be of an inferior quality → 1921 US colloq.
► FOOTPRINT the portion of a tire that contacts the track → 1973 US sl.
► HUMPER in motor racing: a slick drag racing tire that has been grooved for use on a dirt track → 1980 US sl.
► MAYPOP a badly worn pneumatic tire → 1980 US jocular usage
► MICKS Michelin™ tires → 1971 US sl.
► PADS tires → 2003 US bikers’ (motorcycle) usage
► RAG a well-worn tire → 1961 sl.
► RUBBER tires → sl.
► SCUFF racing term for a tire that has been used at least once and is held for a future race → 1998 sl. (Bk.)
► SET OF SKINS a set of tires → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
► SHOE an automobile tire → 1975 US sl., orig. racing driver & mechanic usage (Bk.)
► SKINS tires; esp. well-worn tires → 1954 sl.
► SLICK an automobile tire with but little tread left; a wide, smooth-tread tire, esp.as used in hot-rod races → 1975 hot-rod-racing usage (Bk.)
► SNEAKER an usually large tire → 1992 US sl., hot rodding or motor racing usage
► SNEAKERS tires → 1998 sl. (Bk.)
► SNOWBALLS traditional, big, showy whitewall tires → 1998 sl. (Bk.)
► TACKIE a tire → 1978 S. Afr. sl.
► WAFFLE in trucking: a non-skid tire → 1971 US sl.
► WHITE SHOES white-wall tires → 1978 US sl.
► WIDEY a wide motor car tire → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
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