noun
General Slang
runners
· noun · irish
Trainers. Sneakers. The shoes you'd run in (or not).
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Definitions
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Trainers. Any athletic-style shoe — Nikes, Adidas, the lot. The default Irish word; no jogging required to qualify.
“You're not going to mass in a pair of runners.”
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runners In A Sentence
You're not going to mass in a pair of runners.
Origin & Usage
Self-explanatory shortening of 'running shoes', but where the British say trainers and the Americans say sneakers, the Irish locked in runners.
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