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sneaker
noun- a person engaged in an illegal enterprise who does not pay a regular bribe to the police but does when confronted US
- He’s what you call a sneaker–isn’t on the pad, isn’t paying anybody. You find him, he pays; you don’t, he don’t pay. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, pp. 150–151, 1973
- a smuggler US
- — American Speech, p. 97, May 1956: “Smugglers’ argot in the Southwest”
- a linear amplifier for a citizens’ band radio US
- — Bill Davis, Jawjacking: The Complete CB Dictionary, p. 93, 1977
- in hot rodding or motor racing, an unusually large tyre US
- — Lewis Poteet, Car & Motorcycle Slang, p. 36, 1992
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