Puncture, punctured or puncturing may refer to: a flat tyre in British English (US English "flat tire" or just "flat") a penetrating wound caused by pointy objects as nails or needles Lumbar puncture, also known as a spinal tap Puncture (band), an English punk band Puncture (film), a 2011 American film starring Chris Evans Puncture (topology), the removal of a finite set of points from a manifold Punctured neighbourhood, in general topology in coding theory, a punctured code, in which some of the bits of the data stream have been removed Pneumothorax, also known as punctured lung .