What's the difference between sneaker and tackie?

Sneaker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who sneaks.
  • (n.) A vessel of drink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his V-neck sweater, dad jeans and white New Balance sneakers, Michael Lewis doesn’t look like a troublemaker.
  • (2) This was when American Apparel opened, the Canadian hipster magazine Vice moved to New York, and the sneaker boutique and branding agency Alife established itself on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
  • (3) They were attributed to the chronic pressure of his high-laced athletic sneakers and frequent minor injuries to the involved areas.
  • (4) The following conclusions were obtained: 1) The assembly line workers handled about 3,400 sneaker shoes per day on the assembly line.
  • (5) Now it's meaningful in this world to say that you sell sneakers, at a high level."
  • (6) Three types of protective suits for asbestos removal work were tested in a climatic chamber at two ambient temperatures, 25 degrees and 36 degrees C. Four subjects performed 50 min of bicycle exercise at 90 W dressed in shorts, socks and sneakers (NoPS).
  • (7) One patient wears sneakers instead of regular shoes.
  • (8) One of the girls developed foot dermatitis later from the adhesive used on the inside of new sneakers.
  • (9) You see these shoes?” she says, brandishing a pair of Timberland sneakers outside her tent on a pier in Piraeus port.
  • (10) Step length in heeled shoes was shorter than that in sneakers and flat shoes.
  • (11) However, children wearing low-top sneakers had the lowest rate of LOF (24.0%) of any group.
  • (12) Oh, and having shod the entire fashion industry in her cult skate sneakers, she revealed next season’s must-have flat: a neat, elasticated white ballet slipper, flat or with a small block heel.
  • (13) But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world.
  • (14) But the MacNN site goes on to say that this branch in Regent Street generates three times the revenue per square foot as Harrods – the corner store of the super-rich now easily overtaken by the man we will shortly see, no doubt wearing the usual black polo-neck and sneakers, pulling his next revolutionary magic rabbit out of the iHat.
  • (15) And we had the crystal ball, motherfuckin' Do the Right Thing with John Savage's character, when he rolled his bike over Buggin' Out's sneaker.
  • (16) Falls were three times more frequent in sneakers as compared to shoes on tile surfaces and five times more frequent on rugging.
  • (17) Forty-three years old, he wore light jeans, an orange T-shirt and silver sneakers; his face, with its goatee and glasses, was poised at a precise fulcrum between relaxed southern gentleman – a young Colonel Sanders, maybe – and eager fantasy geek.
  • (18) Working principally to prevent repeat teen pregnancy, improve birth outcomes to teen mothers, and build adolescent parenting skills, the Nike (sneaker)-Footed Health Worker Project (NFHW) draws trainees from the target population of parenting adolescents.
  • (19) April is in a parka, jeans and her beloved Birkenstock clogs, Scott is in his lumberjack gear, Ken is in sneakers as per usual.
  • (20) In black jeans and charcoal grey crewneck, tucking his phone and white earbuds into a pocket, bouncing boyishly on his sneakers, you might at first peg him as, say, a Silicon Valley whiz-kid rather than a top-flight fashion designer.

Tackie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But to be described as "tacky" is another thing entirely.
  • (2) The samples were periodically withdrawn for examination of yellowing and tackiness.
  • (3) He says they talk about "the love, life and losses of [Real Housewives Of Atlanta star] NeNe Leakes," and that they're "designing the merchandise for the next season of [equally tacky reality show] Bad Girls Club: Evian bottles replaced with leopard print covers to conceal the brand on TV.
  • (4) It ultimately led to his re-capture on Friday in a tacky hotel in Los Mochis, a town of tomato growers on the Pacific Coast.
  • (5) The five-year-old isn’t troubled that it might make her look tacky.
  • (6) Practical application is hampered by inherent characteristics of elastomers, i.e., high tackiness and highly hydrophobic surface properties.
  • (7) Most of the outfits he describes as "tacky" and features in his video look to me like those ones praised by fashion magazines.
  • (8) He's right, these aren't just modern irritants, they're downright tacky.
  • (9) 22 min "All this possession and ticky-tacky passing," says Sean Boiling.
  • (10) We might have thought that that was going to be the nadir of this teeth-grindingly tacky week, but then West Australian talk radio host and alleged adult Howard Sattler demonstrated that our concepts of “bottom of the barrel” were wildly optimistic.
  • (11) Abbott, the Liberal leader, said the menu was "tacky and scatological" but confirmed that Brough's candidacy was safe.
  • (12) Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) Donald Trump on Iraq's oil reserve: "I say we should take it and pay ourselves back" #CPAC March 15, 2013 12.52pm GMT "That's the problem with the country," Trump says after detailing how the White House wouldn't let him build one of his tacky black-and-gold-paneled ballrooms on their back lawn.
  • (13) Lidl will forever be associated for me with that illicit drink in its tacky rouge bottle.
  • (14) But what I especially enjoy about Weird Al's song is the way he deems tacky certain aspects of modern life that are now so common they can pass almost unseen: people Instagramming every meal (an "unfollow" offence if ever there was one); people who keep old liquor bottles in a pointless attempt to create a kind of speakeasy vibe; live-tweeting private occasions, and so on.
  • (15) They’ve taken something fine and beautiful and replaced it with something tacky and characterless and guess what?
  • (16) A woman who wears Versace fancies herself quite the molto molto sexy mama, with a dash of 80s tackiness thrown in.
  • (17) I had been trapped in the politically correct negative view of the relay, the view that the cult of the torch was an invented tradition foisted on the Olympics by the Nazis in 1936 and that the 2012 relay was a tacky stunt for drumming up phoney enthusiasm for the London Games from an otherwise indifferent public.
  • (18) As Shona says, certain styles and habits are described as "tacky" by Yankovic in this song, and I don't think many will disagree: Ed Hardy shirts, glitter Uggs, pink sequin Crocs.
  • (19) And you will not find Richard Branson pushing a trolley down the aisle for some tacky publicity stunt.
  • (20) Spinability, pourability, adhesiveness and tackiness are starting to be recognised as physical properties of RTS and its is likely that they may be relevant in the pathogenesis of airways obstruction.

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