Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who sneaks.
- noun A shoe designed for outdoor activity, usually made of canvas with a rubber sole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who sneaks; one who wants spirit; a sneak.
- noun A drinking-vessel: a kind of punch-bowl.
- noun Same as
grub , 4. - noun plural Low heelless canvas shoes with rubber soles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who sneaks.
- noun Prov. Eng. A vessel of drink.
- noun 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. - noun obsolete A punch bowl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
sneaks . - noun An
athletic shoe with a soft,rubber sole . - noun UK, dialect, archaic A
vessel ofdrink .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- noun a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole
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Examples
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The word sneaker entered the language in the 1870s; the rubber soles made the shoes quiet and therefore "sneaky."
CNN.com 2012
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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.
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Nice Kicks is an online magazines for shoe-enthusiasts and has “established itself as the leader in sneaker information on the web.”
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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.
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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.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: ALLIE Maggie Jochild 2007
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All the kids are too busy working in Chinese sneaker factories.
"Wooden Squirrel Cage Machine Obsesses Over Your Thoughts For You." Ann Althouse 2008
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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.
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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.
USATODAY.com - All-Stars and new footwear a perfect fit 2005
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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.
Highsnobiety.com 2009
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The movies they’ve chosen are “moving” in the way that a sneaker is a shoe.
TMP: Truly insidious Moral Piety from the Heartland » Scene-Stealers 2009
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