tranny
1 Americannoun
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trannies
plural
noun
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trannies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tranny1
First recorded in 1960–65; by shortening and alteration
Origin of tranny2
First recorded in 1975–80; by shortening and alteration
Example Sentences
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Before he could afford a four-wheel-drive vehicle, Koller traveled to camp in his 1959 Plymouth Savoy station wagon V-8 with a typewriter push-button tranny.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2016
Some will pop a little ollie with the tail, and some will just muscle the board back into the tranny.
From Time Magazine Archive
Transmission Honda TRX450R: Again, when you ride the Honda by itself, the tranny feels pretty decent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Approach the lip at sort of a frontside grind slash speed and slide your tail up the tranny about a foot below the coping.
From Time Magazine Archive
CAN03 We didn't ride much street on this trip and even when we did, it was still tranny.
From Time Magazine Archive
Triangles Cafe’s first Yelp review describes a “surreal combination of young, just-off-the-plane Brazilians; established gay elders; children of ‘the ice storm’; prosperous guppies; hardscrabble bears; deep woods trannies; expat New Yorkers; and closeted married guys.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2018
But right when you figured you had 'em picked, vert dogs were jumping on rails, rail chompers were eating brick trannies, and the whole situation got turned upside down.
From Time Magazine Archive
I really just picked one of the cleanest lines, hitting a couple of smooth airs, nothing too big, I really like to stomp my landings so I picked nice trannies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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