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- noun UK, Australia, informal A
tracksuit .
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Examples
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How big a gun can you fit in trackie bottoms’ pockets?
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By some measures, Phillipe Petit was acting safer than this 'trackie' rider simply because he had already prepared and reduced his level of danger to the minimum humanly possible for that activity.
Courting Danger: The Contrivance of Safety BikeSnobNYC 2009
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In Australia we call them (i)"trackie" pants, which is a derivation of tracksuit pants or (ii)beach pants because they are great to put on after a day at the beach.
Speedy sewing The List Writer 2009
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Example: One warmish evening last December, I was riding behind a 'trackie' on Jay St. in Brooklyn on my way home from work.
Courting Danger: The Contrivance of Safety BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Of course the 'trackie' jumped up and started yelling at the walker, but who was really at fault?
Courting Danger: The Contrivance of Safety BikeSnobNYC 2009
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I also know that despite what he was wearing, if 'trackie' guy was riding a bike with brakes that the collision would've had less impact or none at all.
Courting Danger: The Contrivance of Safety BikeSnobNYC 2009
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A pedestrian stepped into the bike path to check the traffic to prepare to cross and the 'trackie' hit him at about 15-20 MPH.
Courting Danger: The Contrivance of Safety BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Whereas the 'trackie' rider could've worn a reflective vest, dropped $10 on some LED lights or any combination thereof, but chose not to.
Courting Danger: The Contrivance of Safety BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Fixie riders I prefer to call them 'trackie' riders, since that's where their bikes were actually designed to be ridden bomb around the city along with us who are riding bikes designed for road use, pedestrians and 10 ton+ buses and trucks.
Courting Danger: The Contrivance of Safety BikeSnobNYC 2009
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He was dropped on the hors categorie Port de Pailhères and caught by the Astana-led main group at 35km to go, when he handed off cold drinks to team leader and fellow Team Britain trackie Bradley Wiggins as well as Thomas Lövkvist.
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