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tennies

tennies noun: trainers, sneakers (sport shoes).

Noun

tennies pl (normally plural, singular tenny)

  1. (US, informal, plural-normally) Trainers, sneakers (sport shoes).
    • The Moore Brothers is a white-boys blues band almost stereotypical in its composition: an energetic, toothpick-chewing drummer; a scrawny, ascetic bass player who stood shorter than his upright bass; a clean-cut Charlie in polo shirt and tennies fingering some classic blues solos--sans painful...1989 June 30, Ted Cox, “South Bend, IN”, in Chicago Reader
    • Baby Duffy's tennies, jeans, and polo shirt--each borrowed from the grown-up vocabulary for down time--are scaled small, colored bright, and retrofitted with patches at elbow and knee.1995 September 1, Leah Eskin, “Fashion Statements: the young and the cautious”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of tennies

singulartenny

Origin of tennies

Clipping of tennis shoe + -ie.

Questions about tennies

What does tennies mean?
Tennies means trainers, sneakers (sport shoes).
What part of speech is tennies?
Tennies is a noun.

Words near tennies in the dictionary

  1. tennessine
  2. tennessium
  3. Tenneti
  4. Tenney
  5. Tenneys
  6. tennies
  7. tennikoit
  8. tennikoits
  9. tenniquoit
  10. tenniquoits
  11. tennis

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