"kick the tyres" meaning in All languages combined

See kick the tyres on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-kick the tyres.ogg Forms: kicks the tyres [present, singular, third-person], kicking the tyres [participle, present], kicked the tyres [participle, past], kicked the tyres [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} kick the tyres (third-person singular simple present kicks the tyres, present participle kicking the tyres, simple past and past participle kicked the tyres)
  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, idiomatic) Alternative form of kick the tires Tags: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, alt-of, alternative, idiomatic Alternative form of: kick the tires

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kicks the tyres",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicking the tyres",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked the tyres",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked the tyres",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "kick the tyres (third-person singular simple present kicks the tyres, present participle kicking the tyres, simple past and past participle kicked the tyres)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "kick the tires"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "New Zealand English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 July 15, Harry Wilson, “Stress tests are a chance for market to kick the tyres of Europe's banks”, in The Telegraph:",
          "text": "The tests give the market the chance to kick the tyres of some of Europe's weaker financial institutions, so you might expect the City to be enthusiastic about them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of kick the tires"
      ],
      "id": "en-kick_the_tyres-en-verb-~1ZdvqFZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "kick the tires",
          "kick the tires#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand, UK, idiomatic) Alternative form of kick the tires"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand",
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-kick the tyres.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/En-au-kick_the_tyres.ogg/En-au-kick_the_tyres.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/En-au-kick_the_tyres.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kick the tyres"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kicks the tyres",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicking the tyres",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked the tyres",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kicked the tyres",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "kick the tyres (third-person singular simple present kicks the tyres, present participle kicking the tyres, simple past and past participle kicked the tyres)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "kick the tires"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "New Zealand English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 July 15, Harry Wilson, “Stress tests are a chance for market to kick the tyres of Europe's banks”, in The Telegraph:",
          "text": "The tests give the market the chance to kick the tyres of some of Europe's weaker financial institutions, so you might expect the City to be enthusiastic about them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of kick the tires"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "kick the tires",
          "kick the tires#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, New Zealand, UK, idiomatic) Alternative form of kick the tires"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "New-Zealand",
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-kick the tyres.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/En-au-kick_the_tyres.ogg/En-au-kick_the_tyres.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/En-au-kick_the_tyres.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kick the tyres"
}

Download raw JSONL data for kick the tyres meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.