Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who sneaks.
- n. A sports shoe usually made of canvas and having soft rubber soles. Also called tennis shoe.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who sneaks; one who wants spirit; a sneak.
- n. A drinking-vessel: a kind of punch-bowl.
- n. Same as grub, 4.
- n. plural Low heelless canvas shoes with rubber soles.
Wiktionary
- n. One who sneaks.
- n. An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole.
- n. UK, dialect, archaic A vessel of drink.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who sneaks.
- n. Prov. Eng. A vessel of drink.
- n. A type of soft shoe with a flat, pliable, typically rubber or other soft sole, and canvas-like upper, used in sports such as tennis, or for comfort. Called
sneaker because they give no warning of one's approach. Usually used in the pl. - n. obsolete A punch bowl.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- n. a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole
Examples
“The word sneaker entered the language in the 1870s; the rubber soles made the shoes quiet and therefore "sneaky.”
“At that moment, a wave broke against the shore -- a big wave, what we call sneaker waves in Oregon -- and it splashed us, grabbing at her potion and trying to take it out to sea.”
“A cross training sneaker is a sneaker meant to be worn while training for something, not for running to the doctor's office, the supermarket, dropping the kids off at school, yada, yada, yada.”
“Nice Kicks is an online magazines for shoe-enthusiasts and has “established itself as the leader in sneaker information on the web.””
“But that was all I could afford, and I made even those last by using this stuff called Goop which was a kind of plastic caulk to repair rips in sneaker soles.”
“All the kids are too busy working in Chinese sneaker factories.”
"Wooden Squirrel Cage Machine Obsesses Over Your Thoughts For You."
“Shares in German sneaker maker Puma climbed 6.1% as the firm posted a 2% rise in 2007 net profit to €269 million ($400.2 million) following a good performance in Asia.”
“That's partly because the event is a congregation of the kind of players who are used prominently in sneaker marketing or even have their own signature shoes.”
“The Era looking low top sneaker from the Japanese brand comes in grey terry cotton and in black and blue inside-out terry cotton, making the sneaker certainly stand out, but not in a too obvious way.”
“The movies they’ve chosen are “moving” in the way that a sneaker is a shoe.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sneaker’.
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Americanism
American words
finest, fast food, acclimate, aluminum, alphabetize, airplane, affirmative action, arugula, backhoe, bangs, base board, bayou and 162 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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sneakie
stealthy, sneaky, subversive words - inspired by surrepent.
surrepent, sneaky, slither, steal, slide, stalk, snoop, stealth, sly, snitch, secret, ssssh! and 15 more...
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long tail
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