track shoe

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noun

a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.

the part of a track-brake mechanism that slows or stops a vehicle.

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Origin of track shoe

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby track shoe

track meet, trackpad, track record, track rod, tracks, track shoe, trackside, track spike, track suit, track system, track-train dynamics

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How to use track shoe in a sentence

If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.
The World’s Toughest Political Quiz|Jeff Greenfield|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Workers built a temporary rail track through the city to move the statue in a process that took three days.
Florence Preps ‘David’ for the Big One|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I was there to track down the family of one of the most notorious defectors in Cuban history.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome?
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

They seem to belong to us, and then they freely go—behavior very uncharacteristic of a shadow or a shoe.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
We are so many around here that you'll have to get paper and pencil and mark us down to keep track of how many.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Bondad sua, seor, I'll be sworn there is not one fit to tie the latchet of your shoe in the whole army.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for track shoe

track shoe

noun

either of a pair of light running shoes fitted with steel spikes for better gripAlso called: spike

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