a dull or socially inept person.
If you describe someone as having a spare tyre, you mean that they are fat around the waist.
His car has a flat tire and the tow truck has not yet arrived. Distraught, they decide to return home early, but end up with a flat tire.
As we spoke above, your best bet is to call for roadside assistance, either from a dedicated company like Mach1, or another already purchased a plan, or from a tow truck, your state, your local police, or 911.
Tire is the preferred spelling in the U.S. and Canada. Tyre is preferred in most varieties of English outside North America.
And if you're asking us about the round black things which are, quite literally, where the rubber meets the road, then yes, here in Australia, we spell them “tyres”.
(tire of someone/something) to become bored with someone or something. You'll soon tire of their music. She quickly tired of his company. Synonyms and related words. To not be interested, or to be bored.
: a rubber cushion that fits around a wheel (as of an automobile) and usually contains compressed air. : a metal hoop forming the tread of a wheel.
vb. 1 tr to reduce the energy of, esp. by exertion; weary. 2 tr; often passive to reduce the tolerance of; bore or irritate.
DEFINITIONS1. to make someone feel very tired. All that exercise really tired me out. Synonyms and related words. To make someone tired.
An apt synonym for knackered might be the phrase “dead tired” for more than one reason.
Australian slang the act or an instance of defecating.
Runners: this is what Australians call their sneakers or trainers. Sanga: short for sandwich.
Boot: the trunk of a car. Booze bus: how Australians refer to mobile breath testing units. You might spot these big vans on the side of the road where police are conducting random breath tests of motorists.
Whinge is primarily used in the U.K. and Australia. Like whine, whinge can mean to make a whining noise (often as part of complaining), or to complain with such a tone, or simply to complain in a way that's considered annoying.
Chook: A chicken. In the show, it's wonderfully used in the phrase “made you look, you dirty chook.” See also: “Bin chicken,” an uncharitable name for the ibis, a bird whose long beak can make quick work of a rubbish bin. Dunny: A toilet, traditionally outdoors but more commonly now indoors.
For instance, the Jim-brits or Jimmy Britts, shortened to “the jimmies,” is Australian rhyming slang for diarrhoea; “Jimmy” (or “Jimmy Grant”) is an immigrant, so not only is this a deft expression, it is also a neat insult of the Australians' traditional enemy.
Dished up and Kerry-Packered. Aussie slang from the 1930s, this term is an extension of dished, meaning “ruined, beatened, damned,” according to Cassell's. (Saying “I'll be dished” is another way to say “I'll be damned.”) Another way to say tired in Australia is kerry-packered, rhyming slang for knackered.
Knackered – Tired, exhausted
“I was knackered after that run.”
to make somebody/yourself feel very tired. That walk has tired me out. Pace yourself or you'll tire yourself out in the first half of the race.
verb (used with object),tired, tir·ing. to reduce or exhaust the strength of, as by exertion; make weary; fatigue (often followed by out): The long walk tired him. to exhaust the interest, patience, etc., of; make weary; bore: Your stories tire me.