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flat spot

noun, verb — 2 senses

flat spot

nounalso spelled flat-spot
1

A small patch of a vehicle tyre that has been flattened by abrasion with the road surface, so that the tyre is no longer smoothly circular at that point; usually caused by the wheel locking under heavy braking.

Related terms
flat-spot

flat-spot

verb
1

To cause a flat spot on (a vehicle tyre), usually by locking the wheels under heaving braking.

  • Hamilton locked up at turn three and flat-spotted his right front tyre.

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for flat spot and flat-spot.