"spike strip" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spike strips [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} spike strip (plural spike strips)
  1. A device consisting of a portable bed of nails used by police and armed forces to puncture car tires. Synonyms: road spikes, spikes, stinger, traffic spikes Translations (Translations): piikkimatto (Finnish), herse [feminine] (French), Nagelsperre [feminine] (German), kolczatka [feminine] (Polish), spikmatta [common-gender] (Swedish), seyyar tuzak (Turkish), seyyar kapan (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-spike_strip-en-noun-jPq1liPk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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