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plural sneakers
One who sneaks. quotations examples
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.
1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […]
(Northeastern US, Florida, Atlantic Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer. examples
(UK, dialect, archaic) A vessel of drink. quotations
I have just left the right worshipful and his myrmidons about a sneaker of five gallons!
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(India, archaic) A large cup (or small basin) with a saucer and cover.
(biology) A sneaker male. quotations
These sneakers may go on this way indefinitely, or, if one of the big males somehow dies or disappears, a sneaker male's hormones will trigger a huge growth spurt and he'll metamorphose into an alpha male.
2008, Faye Flam, The Score: The Science of the Male Sex Drive