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track
noun- the street or area where prostitutes solicit customers US
- I might even steal her from scarface and put her back on the track tomorrow. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 180, 1969
- Because of my concern for Jessie, I pulled Fatima up from the track before midnight. — Donald Goines, Whoreson, p. 62, 1972
- Niggas hatin’ on me cause I got hoes on the track. — Hustle and Flow, 2004
- the open road as used by itinerant travellers AUSTRALIA, 1873
Commonly in the phrase “on the track”. - And may Aussie not forget them when they’re invalided back / Nor leave them poor and jobless for the dole queue or “the track”. — Tip Kelaher, The Digger Hat and other verses, p. 30, 1942
- [H]e was one of these independent old bushmen, and began to talk about going on the track again. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 68, 1962
- The frown was a part of his hard face, etched there by forty years of track living. — Wal Watkins, Race the Lazy River, p. 12, 1963
- the course of an event; the course of time AUSTRALIA, 1945
- The visiting New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr Palmer, said yesterday the notion of a common currency between Australia and NZ was a “very long way down the track”. — Advertiser, 3 July 1990
- an armoured personnel carrier, especially the M-113 US
- The tracks had flattened the jungle but not destroyed it. — Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days, p. 111, 1971
- CAPTAIN: I was an FO for the 25th. WILLARD: Tracks? — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- It was late in the afternoon and they were in the last of several APCs (Armored Personnel Carriers), lumbering steel-plated behemoths called “tracks.” — Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing, p. 21, 1984
- a warder who carries contraband for prisoners AUSTRALIA, 1950
An earlier variant “track-in” has been recorded from 1939. - — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 91, 1977
▶ the track
the Savoy ballroom, New York US
A major night spot on Lenox Avenue between 140th and 141st Streets in New York from 1927 until the 50s.- [S]pecific places are known by special nicknames – New York City as The Apple, Seventh Avenue as The Stroll, the Savoy Ballroom as The Track[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 221, 1946
- — Babs Gonzales, Be-Bop Dictionary and History of its Famous Stars, p. 9, 1949
- Whenever I didn’t go to the track (Savoy) I’d go down to “Minton’s.” — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 33, 1967
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