track pants

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

track pants pl (plural only)

1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) Sweatpants.
   • 2008, Janet Engle, How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Fashion Design Business, Atlantic Publishing, page 57:

     Active apparel is no longer limited to track pants and basketball shorts.

   • 2010, Adam Shand, Big Shots: Inside Melbourne′s Gangland Wars, Revised edition, page 319:

     The defence alleged that Benji had a pistol down inside his track pants, the weapon that Gatto finally killed him with. If the gun had been in Benji′s track pants or briefs there would be oil, dust and gunshot residue on the inside of the fabric.

   • 2011, Ken Smith, Run Naked, Run Free‎^[1], page 66:

     A pair of grey, flannel track pants outlined the lad′s bottom very nicely indeed.

Synonyms

• trackie daks (Australian)

Translations

sweatpants — see sweatpants

See also

• tracksuit