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sneaker

noun
/ˈsnikɚ/US

Etymology

From sneak + -er. The shoes sense is a reference to the quietness of the shoes.

  1. inherited from *snīkaną✻ — “to creep, crawl”
  2. inherited from *snīkan✻
  3. inherited from snīcan — “to creep, crawl”
  4. inherited from sniken — “to creep, crawl”
  5. suffixed as sneaker — “sneak + er”

Definitions

  1. One who sneaks.

    • 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. An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.

  3. A vessel of drink.

    • Spectator I have just left the right worshipful and his myrmidons about a sneaker of five gallons!
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A large cup (or small basin) with a saucer and cover.

    2. A sneaker male.

      • 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

sneakered, sneakerhead, sneakerization, sneakerless, sneakerlike, sneakernet, sneakerprint, sneaker sock, sneaker wave, sneakery

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sneaker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA