sneaker

IPA: snˈikɝ

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

Examples of "sneaker" in Sentences

All the kids are too busy working in Chinese sneaker factories.
The movies they’ve chosen are “moving” in the way that a sneaker is a shoe.
The word sneaker entered the language in the 1870s; the rubber soles made the shoes quiet and therefore "sneaky."
Nice Kicks is an online magazines for shoe-enthusiasts and has “established itself as the leader in sneaker information on the web.”
But that was all I could afford, and I made even those last by using this stuff called Goop which was a kind of plastic caulk to repair rips in sneaker soles.
That's partly because the event is a congregation of the kind of players who are used prominently in sneaker marketing or even have their own signature shoes.
Shares in German sneaker maker Puma climbed 6.1% as the firm posted a 2% rise in 2007 net profit to €269 million ($400.2 million) following a good performance in Asia.
At that moment, a wave broke against the shore -- a big wave, what we call sneaker waves in Oregon -- and it splashed us, grabbing at her potion and trying to take it out to sea.
A cross training sneaker is a sneaker meant to be worn while training for something, not for running to the doctor's office, the supermarket, dropping the kids off at school, yada, yada, yada.
The Era looking low top sneaker from the Japanese brand comes in grey terry cotton and in black and blue inside-out terry cotton, making the sneaker certainly stand out, but not in a too obvious way.