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tire kicker

tire kicker is the alternative form of tyre kicker.

Meaning of tyre kicker

Noun

tyre kicker (plural tyre kickers)

  1. (idiomatic) A person who pretends to be interested in purchasing an item (especially a car), but who has no intention of buying it.
    • "Some exhibitions charge a ticket price to separate the tyre-kickers from the genuine buyers," Doherty says.2008, Business Review Weekly, volume 30, numbers 9-12, page 37
    Synonyms:
    looker

Forms of tire kicker

pluraltire kickers

Questions about tire kicker

What is tire kicker the alternative form of?
Tire kicker is the alternative form of tyre kicker.

Words near tire kicker in the dictionary

  1. tire gages
  2. tire gauge
  3. tire gauges
  4. tire iron
  5. tire irons
  6. tire kicker
  7. tire kickers
  8. tire lever
  9. tire levers
  10. tire out
  11. tire spoon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tire kicker (page history and authors); tyre kicker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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