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flat tire

noun

  1. a pneumatic tire that has lost all or most of its air through leakage, puncture, or the like.

  2. Older Slang.a dull or socially inept person.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of flat tire1

First recorded in 1920–25
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I can’t touch the clot in a patient’s coronary, or see their stroke in the same way I can see a flat tire.

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Along the way, police attempted a PIT manuever to disable the truck and eventually boxed it in, with multiple flat tires, in front of the Studio City home.

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A man who stopped his car with a flat tire near San Rafael in 1936 ran across what he thought was a piece of scrap metal, about 5 by 8 inches, covered in curious writing.

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He headed from the Palisades fire to Eaton Canyon around 6:45 p.m. after being briefly stranded on the ember-filled Pacific Coast Highway due to a flat tire from a fallen utility pole.

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Not sure exactly when, but Robinson was noted for helping a troubled driver on the freeway fix a flat tire.

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