sneaker

Related to how quiet the shoes are. sneak +‎ -er

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsnikɚ/

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• Rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)

sneaker (plural sneakers)

1. One who sneaks.
   • 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

     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.

2. (US, Atlantic Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.
3. (UK, dialect, archaic) A vessel of drink.
   • Spectator

     I have just left the right worshipful and his myrmidons about a sneaker of five gallons!

4. (India, archaic) A large cup (or small basin) with a saucer and cover.
5. (biology) A sneaker male.
   • 2008, Faye Flam, The Score: The Science of the Male Sex Drive‎:

     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.

• (sports shoes): kicks, tennis shoe (US), trainer (UK), runner (Australia), takkie (South Africa), running shoe, see also Thesaurus:sports shoe

• sports shoe

• sneaker sock
• sneaker wave

• Keerans, Keresan

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• Rhymes: -ikər

sneaker m (plural sneakers, diminutive sneakertje n)

1. sneaker

• sportschoen, gymschoen

• IPA^(key): /esˈnikeɾ/ [ezˈni.keɾ]
• Rhymes: -ikeɾ

sneaker m (plural sneakeres)

1. sneaker