Sneaker

Definitions

1. One who sneaks.
2. An athletic shoe with a soft, rubber sole. A trainer.
   Atlantic-Canada, Australia, Florida, New-Zealand, Northeastern, US
3. A vessel of drink.
   UK, archaic, dialectal
4. A large cup (or small basin) with a saucer and cover.
   India, archaic
5. A sneaker male.

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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.”

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

“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.”

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