sneaker
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA) IPA: /ˈsnikɚ/
sneaker (plural sneakers)
- One who sneaks.
- Charles Lamb
- Beshrew the man who on such a day as this, the general festival, should affect to stand aloof. I am none of those sneakers. I am free of the corporation, and care not who knows it.
- Charles Lamb
- (US, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole.
- (UK, dialect, archaic) A vessel of drink.
- Spectator
- I have just left the right worshipful and his myrmidons about a sneaker of five gallons!
- Spectator
- (biology) A sneaker male.
- (sports shoes) kicks, tennis shoe (US), trainer (UK), runner (Australia), running shoe, see also Thesaurus:sports shoe
- German: Schleicher, Schleicherin
- Spanish: pillo
- French: basket, tennis, espadrille (Canada)
- German: Turnschuhe, Leinenschuh, Schnürschuhe, Sneakers, Sportschuhe, Tennisschuhe,
- Italian: scarpe da ginnastica, scarpe da tennis
- Portuguese: tênis, ténis (Portugal)
- Russian: кроссовка
- Spanish: tenis m (especially Latin America), bamba f (Northeastern Spain), botín m (Seville), champión m (Paraguay), deportiva f (Spain), espores m-p (Northeastern Argentina), espais m-p (Cantabria), gomas f-p (Northwestern Venezuela), guachicón m (Northeastern Venezuela), kets m-p (Lleida), kids m-p (Bolivia), maripís m-p (Aragon), playera f (Spain), popis m-p (Cuba), zapatilla deportiva f (Argentina), zapato de goma m (Venezuelan standard usage), deportivas
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