1An extra tyre carried in a motor vehicle for use in case of a puncture.
备用轮胎
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Fifth wheel is better than spare tire in the garage.
Take water and a spare tire, and make sure that someone back at the hotel knows if you're going to try to trek all the way to the Marine landing site.
Check your spare tire and make sure you have one.
By Feb. 23, at least 20 truck and car tires - including spare tires mounted on the front and back of trucks - had been pierced by a sharp instrument, possibly an ice pick.
With all this time we spend in our vehicles you would think people would include more safety equipment in their trunks than just a jack and spare tire, but they don't.
2informal A roll of fat round a person's waist.
〈非正式〉（人体腰部的一圈）多余脂肪
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I set myself a program of losing weight and getting rid of the spare tyre around the waist.
People with serious spare tires around their middle do win bowling tournaments.
Men's health magazines, for example, repeatedly run exhortations containing ways to lose love handles and spare tires so their stomachs will come to resemble those featured prominently on every single self-esteem-battering cover.
Add two months of nearly nonstop high-calorie party fare, and it's no wonder so many of us greet spring with a spare tire around our middle.