Meaning of sneakerprint | Babel Free

Definitions

The impression left by a sneaker.

Examples

“A little distance to his left was a lunch-sack, squashed flat. There was a large sneakerprint in the middle of it.”

“Two other prosecution witnesses testified to having seen blood on the defendant’s shirt and sneakers and bloody sneakerprints were observed at the crime scene.”

“In conducting a search for evidence in the area surrounding the Gustafson residence, the Townsend police chief, William May, noticed several sneakerprints in a flower bed along the front of the house.”

“Almost all the prints on the kitchen, dining room and living room floors had been wiped away in what must have been an extensive attempt to cover the killer’s (or killers’) tracks, but three very smeared impressions in the blood remained: two were sockprints corresponding to “a size 6½ to 7½ woman’s shoe or a size 5 to 6 man’s shoe,” and the last one was a sneakerprint of a size that fit a “woman or small boy.””

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