Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Tire
verb. (American).—To alarm.
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1887. MORLEY ROBERTS, The Western Avernus, v. Then getting ferocious: ‘Not that I’m scared of him.’… ‘Nor of you either. I’ve seen cow-boys, bigger men than you, and with bigger hats too, but they didn’t TIRE me.’
