Tennies
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tennies is a noun meaning (US, informal) Trainers, sneakers (sport shoes).
Meaning
(US, informal) Trainers, sneakers (sport shoes).
Example Sentences
In 1989 she performed a solo called Fame & Fortune in a pink Afro wig, a tutu, and tennies.
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.
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 facial expressions--and the leader, an Andy Renko sort singing and occasionally diddling on harp and keeping things fresh with a remarkable collection of esoteric blues standards.
Word Forms
- tenny
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tenniser, runners, running shoes, tennist, tennis, tenniquoits.
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