spike strip

English

A US Army soldier deploying a 'spike strip at a vehicle check point in Iraq

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

• Finnish: piikkimatto (fi)
• French: herse (fr) f
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• Norwegian:

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• Polish: kolczatka (pl) f
• Turkish: seyyar tuzak, seyyar kapan

See also

• spike strip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia