tennies - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-plural noun)

(US) trainers, sneakers (sport shoes)

* {{quote-news|year=1989|date=June 30|author=Ted Cox|title=South Bend, IN|work=Chicago Reader citation

|passage=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. }}

* {{quote-news|year=1995|date=September 1|author=Leah Eskin|title=Fashion Statements: the young and the cautious|work=Chicago Reader citation

|passage=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. }}

* {{quote-news|year=2003|date=April 11|author=Laura Molzahn|title=Jan Erkert|work=Chicago Reader citation

|passage=In 1989 she performed a solo called Fame & Fortune in a pink Afro wig, a tutu, and tennies . }}