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spare tyre

Another term for a fifth wheel.

The only single person in a group of 5 where there are 2 couples.

“I feel so bad for Nicky, he was spare tyre to Alex and Javira and Terese and Anthony

by minky gonks January 7, 2022


spare his blushes

refrain from causing someone embarrassment.

"he will remain nameless to spare his blushes"

by Arminkshipper January 1, 2025


Spare Pin

In bowling, when you knock down 9 pins on your first throw and there is only one pin left, that is the "spare pin"

I can get a spare but I have to knock down the spare pin.

by k-ped April 11, 2021


Murphy's Law of Spares

"If you buy just one of something, you will surely break it almost immediately, but if you buy one or more "spare" items to have "just in case", your "initial" item will miraculously escape damage no matter how many mishaps you endure, and thus those duplicate items will merely gather dust in the garage or at the back of your desk-drawer."

I have always tried to handle objects gently and carefully, but due to extreme forgetfulness and physical/mental/emotional infirmities, I tend to "be rough on my stuff" --- sitting/stepping on unobserved items, blundering into objects as I'm groggily stumbling to the bathroom in the middle of the night, soiling items or spilling/dropping stuff, etc., and so I occasionally attempt to "prepare for the future" by acquiring spares of the types of items which I typically seem to damage or break; only prob is that just as soon as I do "lay in for a rainy day" like that, the "currently-being-used" object that I had been procuring said spares for NEVER SEEMS TO ACTUALLY SUSTAIN SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE, and so all of those extras that I'd carefully tucked away just "sit there for decades"... talk about a classic case of "Murphy's Law of Spares"!

by QuacksO November 23, 2018


Spare Change

The little metal discs they give you back sometimes when you spend Benjamin Franklins. Can also observe poor people dumping them into recycling bins at grocery stores, how dumb is that?! And they complain about money all the time, go buy some more lottery tickets wanker! I’m not even from Ireland that’s how irritated I get thinking about it

Spare Change! No dammit! Gave you like seven dollars last week, do you even realize how much bs I gotta put up with for $8.25?! Get the fixck out of my way sir please thank you, I’m sorry

by Clyde dammot January 28, 2024


spare ground

The perineum - the bit of flesh between a scrotum and arsehole that can't be seen by it's owner unless a camera phone is employed, or a mirror placed on the floor.
By wiping a clean finger on the spare gound and then sniffing it or placing it under his partner's nose, a man thus enables himself to check the current hygeine status of his genital area.

Timothy - "Here Brenda, have a sniff at my finger".
Brenda - "(Sniffs) What the fuck Timothy! Your finger smells like shite! What the fuck have you been doing?"
Timothy - "Nowt. I've just ran it up my spare ground to see if I could get away without going for a shower before I get Knighted at Buckingham Palace today".

by boyboyce September 4, 2009


Spare

This is the person in your life who you are just friends with, but they are not in the friend zone. You spend a lot of time together. You wouldn’t even say you’re in the talking stage, a platonic friendship but you are pretty sure both of you could maybe see it being more, but neither person is willing to cross the line to make it more than just a friendship. But you always know in the back of your head that they are an option. Like a spare tire… you know they are there but aren’t gonna use it if you don’t need to

Person 1 “hey are you an Andy a thing?”

Person 2 “no not really, he’s just my spare right now, but maybe that will change”

by Papafritarach August 18, 2021