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tracks noun bruises, punctures and sores visible on the skin of an intravenous drug user US, 1960. ► across the tracks; wrong side of the tracksthe socially inferior area of town. The railway often separated the better-off part of an American town from the poorer quarters. Duke Ellington's 'Across the Tracks Blues' dates to 1943 US, 1943. ► make tracksto leave US, 1945
idiomtrackscover your tracksto hide something, usually wrong or illegal, that you have done so that no one finds out:Phelps tried to cover his tracks by using a false passport.I've got some good contacts - they give me important information and they always make sure they cover their tracks completely.make tracks (for)to leave a place, especially quickly, and go somewhere else:Rushton was making tracks for New York when the message came for him to go to Venice.stop (dead) in your tracks(also be stopped in your tracks)to stop suddenly because something has surprised or frightened you or made you angry:They stopped dead in their tracks and started shouting at the guard.I was stopped in my tracks by a roar from the stadium.Alarm bells sounded and many people froze in their tracks with fear.stop sth (dead) in its tracks(also stop sb (dead) in his/her tracks)to stop a process or activity from continuing or developing, or to make someone stop what they are saying or doing:The Parliamentary Committee was stopped dead in its tracks this week by a message from the Minister of Agriculture.A desert locust plague has been stopped in its tracks by new techniques of prevention.We have received new information that could stop the deal in its tracks. (redirected from tracks)
track1. in. [for a laser beam, a phonograph stylus, a tape head, etc.] to successfully transfer information to or from a recording medium. Something here won’t track. Must be the stylus. 2. in. [for a person] to make sense. (Usually in the negative.) She wasn’t tracking. There was no sense in trying to talk to her before she came out of it. 3. in. to coincide; to agree; to jibe. These two things don’t track. I don’t know what’s wrong. 4. n. a musical selection on a recording of some kind. The next track is my favorite. |