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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sneaker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
▪ A pleasant-looking young man, slicked up in new jeans and white sneakers, smiled and held open the courtroom door.
▪ She wore a red tank top, black jeans, high white sneakers.
▪ The players wore short-sleeve white shirts, long white pants and dark bow ties, with baseball caps and white sneakers.
▪ But Senorita Miss Carla could not be bothered with white sneakers.
■ VERB
wear
▪ Finally, the emerging stars of basketball wore sneakers, the new signifiers of urban leisure and street style.
▪ I made them wear sneakers, strapped them tightly into a pair of life jackets and turned them loose.
▪ They wear sneakers, however, and do their best to look like skateboarders.
▪ The $ 4. 76 billion footwear and apparel maker has penetrated nearly every sport in which participants wear sneakers.
▪ Of the passers-by, the younger ones wore jeans and sneakers, but their elders were still huddled in their warms.
▪ Some of us are wearing stylish golf shoes and some are wearing the high-priced sneakers of Tiger Woods' favorite shoe company.
▪ She wore sneakers and droopy yellow socks.
▪ Half the people in the car were wearing sneakers with splashy designs on them and molded soles that looked like gravy boats.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Now I wonder if I would not have been better off in sneakers and a fleece, more populist clothes.
▪ Of the passers-by, the younger ones wore jeans and sneakers, but their elders were still huddled in their warms.
▪ Rory walked towards her, dressed in jeans and sneakers, a soft yellow shirt.
▪ She drove me crazy, night and day, she wanted sneakers, she wanted sneakers.
▪ She wore a red tank top, black jeans, high white sneakers.
▪ They wore leather vests and high-heeled sneakers, body suits and spandex, trying to get noticed.
▪ Who, in passing, it might be noted, wore not boots nor shoes but canvas sneakers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sneaker

Sneaker \Sneak"er\ (sn[=e]k"[~e]r), n.

  1. One who sneaks.
    --Lamb.

  2. A vessel of drink. [Prov. Eng.]

    A sneaker of five gallons.
    --Spectator.

  3. 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.

  4. A punch bowl. [Obs.]
    --Spectator.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sneaker

1590s, "one who sneaks," agent noun from sneak (v.). Meaning "rubber-soled shoe" is attested from 1895, American English; earlier sneak (1862), so called because the shoe was noiseless. See also plimsoll; another early name for them was tackies (1902), from tacky (adj.1).\nThe night-officer is generally accustomed to wear a species of India-rubber shoes or goloshes on her feet. These are termed 'sneaks' by the women [of Brixton Prison].

["Female Life in Prison," 1862]

\nRelated: Sneakers.\n
Wiktionary
sneaker

n. 1 One who sneaks. 2 An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. 3 (context UK dialect archaic English) A vessel of drink.

WordNet
sneaker

  1. n. a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole [syn: gym shoe, tennis shoe]

  2. someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie, sneak, canary]

Wikipedia
Sneaker

Sneaker may refer to:

  • Sneaker wave, type of ocean wave
  • Sneaker (computer security), a computer intruder or hacker
  • Sneaker (band), an American rock band
  • Sneaker (album), album by the American rock band Sneaker
  • Sneaker (comic), a character in the UK comic, The Dandy
  • The Sneaker, a Japanese light novel magazine

Sneakers are a type of casual shoes.

Sneakers may also refer to:

  • Sneakers (1992 film), an American film starring Robert Redford
  • Sneakers (2011 film), a Bulgarian film
  • Sneakers (Danish band), a Danish rock band
  • "Sneakers" (short story), a 1989 short story by Stephen King
  • Sneakers (video game), for the Xbox
  • Sneakers (1981 video game), for the Apple II computer
Sneaker (album)

Sneaker is the debut album by the band Sneaker, released in 1981 on Handshake Records and Tapes.

Sneaker (band)

Sneaker was a West Coast American rock band, active from 1973 to 1983. The band is best known for its Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hit single, "More Than Just the Two of Us", from its first album, Sneaker (1981). They also had a minor hit with "Don't Let Me In", a song written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker from Steely Dan.

Sneaker was composed of Tim Torrance on guitars, Mitch Crane on vocals and guitars, Michael Carey Schneider on vocals and keyboards, Mike Hughes on drums, Michael Cottage on bass guitar, and Jim King on keyboards, synthesizers, and vibes. The band cited as its primary musical influences Steely Dan, The Eagles and The Doobie Brothers. They released 2 studio albums on Handshake Records and Tapes, Sneaker in 1981 (which included their Top 40 hit, "More Than Just the Two of Us") and Loose In The World in 1982. Both albums were produced by Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. In 2001, Cool Sound Records, a Japanese record label, released Early On, a collection of their early recordings and, in 2003, released Footprints In Japan, a 1982 live recording from Osaka & Tokyo, Japan.

The group's name "Sneaker" was taken from the Steely Dan song "Bad Sneakers" from their album Katy Lied, a fact confirmed by Michael Carey Schneider.

Usage examples of "sneaker".

Atlantic Avenue and stood waiting for his turn at the Plexiglas window, studying the wanted signs and the posters promoting stamp collecting and literacy, scuffing his sneaker toes at the scraps of paper, the yellow slips and torn government envelopes that layered the floor.

Each evening after supper, she put on her peacoat, wrapped her striped muffler around her neck, positioned her ear muffs, and rigged her pedometer to her sneaker.

I launched the Baby Phat sneaker, I put a naked photograph of myself fifty-feet high above Times Square.

Poppy put her right foot up on the coffee table and began fooling with her sneaker lace, like it was loose and she needed to retie it.

The demon danced spastically from one sneakered foot to the other, glancing back down the alley from where he had emerged.

He bumped the heels of his sneakered feet in elusive tempo against the front of the trunk.

There were brown patches beneath her eyes they seemed to be unfurling like wings and her left sneaker was now a solid red instead of white.

I pulled a sock on Morelli's casted foot, and I laced a sneaker on the other.

I upended one of the remaining bricks with the toe of my sneaker, dispossessing a family of fat quicksilver bugs which slithered away, seeking new cover.

Through darkness he flees, all but blind, not without fear but purged of doubt, across sandstone but also sand, across loose shale, between masses of sage and weather-sculpted thrusts of rock, zigging and zagging, legs reaching for the land ahead, sneakered feet landing with assurance on terrain that had previously been treacherous, arms pump-pump-pumping like the connecting rods on the driving wheels of a locomotive, the dog often visible in front of him, but sometimes seen less than sensed, sometimes seen not at all, but always reappearing, the two of them bonding more intimately the farther they travel, spirit sewn to spirit with the strong thread of Curtis's reckless trust.

And then Hob's sneaker came off and was pulled between the cylinders, and with one final wrench George had him off the conveyer belt, and both men were sprawled on the factory's grimy floor.

Her words wash over him and he thinks of how he will put the sneaker in a Baggie, handling it with the fire tongs, and when he turns it over at the police station, the chain of evidence will begin.

Her sneakered foot came down on his instep, and she put her whole weight of one hundred thirtyfive pounds into her heel, which she gyrated as if she were grinding out a lighted cigarette butt.

In the center of it, as clear as a fingerprint, was the track of a sneaker or tennis shoe .

As Masera's SUV pulled up the driveway, she hopped out to meet it on one foot, still pulling her sneaker on the other and leaving Druid in a quandary over how to heel to such a gait.