tyre kicker
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.
tyre
UK /taɪə(ɹ)/ US /taɪə(ɹ)/
name 5noun 4verb 2
Definitions
noun
1
The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
pneumatic tyres
runflat tyres
2
The metal rim, or metal covering on a rim, of a (wooden or metal) wheel, usually of steel or formerly wrought iron, as found on (horse-drawn or railway) carriages and wagons and on locomotives.
iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse
tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings
verb
1
To fit tyres to (a vehicle).
The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.
noun
1
Curdled milk.
The boiled milk, that the family has not used, is allowed to cool in the same vessel; and a little of the former days tyre, or curdled milk, is added to promote its coagulation, and the acid fermentation. Next morning it has become tyre, or coagulated acid milk.
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