Entry · Friday, May 22, 2026
Rubber Tire
/RUB-er TY-er/ n.- 1. A toroidal casing of vulcanized rubber, mounted to a wheel rim and inflated to bear the weight of whatever it was assigned to carry, though on the thicccest specimens the sidewall alone seems to carry the conversation.
- 2. colloq. Wide in the hip, low in the stance. The sidewall is thick, the shoulder is thick, the tread is thick, and the whole arrangement sits on the ground like it has already won the argument. Esp. one photographed in profile at a tire shop, where a wall of them together constitutes a kind of chorus.
"The Michelin X Works XZY3 he ordered for the quarry haul truck arrived on a flatbed pallet and the dock crew stood around it for a full minute before anyone spoke. Thiccc does not cover it. That tire has more sidewall than most studio apartments have ceiling height."
From Middle English tyre, a contraction of attire, meaning the iron band that 'attired' or dressed a wooden wheel. The rubber version was patented by Robert William Thomson in 1845 and popularized by John Boyd Dunlop in 1888. Two different men looked at a wheel and thought it needed more body. Both were correct.
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It is a circle that has opinions about the road, and the road does not get a vote.
Ruling ADMITTED UNDER PROTEST
The ply rating constitutes a documented measurement of girth. The profile asserts itself. I cannot find a counter-argument and I have looked.
In the margin
The viscount had a tire thrown at his Bentley outside Monaco and honestly the tire was more composed about the whole situation.