Tennies
Origin
Diminutive of tennis shoe with -ie?
Full definition of tennies
Noun
tennies
(plural only)- (US) trainers, sneakers (sport shoes)
- 1989, June 30, Ted Cox, South Bend, IN, 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.
- 1995, September 1, Leah Eskin, Fashion Statements: the young and the cautious, 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.
- 2003, April 11, Laura Molzahn, Jan Erkert, In 1989 she performed a solo called Fame & Fortune in a pink Afro wig, a tutu, and tennies.