sneak, sneaker, sneakerheads, mooch, gumshoe, missing in action

Every Saturday morning across America, queues of “sneakerheads” form outside trainer shops. Many are adding to their hundred-pair collections, but the rest are seeking shoes to sell in the secondary market

The "sneakerhead" trade is worth $1.5 billion a year

Sneakerheads can launch initial public offerings on new stock exchanges

ECONOMIST.COM

Sanford, as the whole world now knows, went missing in action when he secretly snuck off to Buenos Aires to see his lover. Ever since he got caught at the airport coming home, he has been confessing and apologizing and talking and talking and talking.


Cost Cutting, a k a Mooching By MICHELLE SLATALLA
Tough times require tough measures in household budgeting.


黃營MIA　（missing in action)掉的55萬票。

MAYVILLE STATE: Detective dictionary Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks ,ND ,USA
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sneakerhead

1. A person who collects limited, rare, OG, or flat out exclusive kicks. Usually the collection consists of Jordans or Dunks.
2. A person with background knowledge of certain sneakers.

Yo, that cat always be rockin fresh sneaks. Gotta be a sneakerhead.

by brandoneezy March 21, 2005

gum·shoe n.

1. A sneaker or rubber overshoe.
2. Slang. An investigator, especially a detective.

intr.v. Slang., -shoed, -shoe·ing, -shoes.

1. To work as a detective.
2. To move about stealthily; sneak.

missing in action
MIA
A casualty of hostile action, other than the victim of a terrorist activity, who is not present at his or her duty location due to apparent involuntary reasons and whose location is unknown.



sneak v., sneaked also snuck (snŭk), sneak·ing, sneaks. v.intr.

1. To go or move in a quiet, stealthy way.
2. To behave in a cowardly or servile manner.

v.tr.
To move, give, take, or put in a quiet, stealthy manner: sneak candy into one's mouth; sneaked a look at the grade sheet.
n.

1. A person regarded as stealthy, cowardly, or underhanded.
2. An instance of sneaking; a quiet, stealthy movement.
3. Informal. A sneaker.

adj.

1. Carried out in a clandestine manner: sneak preparations for war.
2. Perpetrated without warning: a sneak attack.

[Probably akin to Middle English sniken, to creep, from Old English snīcan.]

USAGE NOTE Snuck is an Americanism first introduced in the 19th century as a nonstandard regional variant of sneaked. Widespread use of snuck has become more common with every generation. It is now used by educated speakers in all regions. Formal written English is more conservative than other varieties, of course, and here snuck still meets with much resistance. Many writers and editors have a lingering unease about the form, particularly if they recall its nonstandard origins. And 67 percent of the Usage Panel disapproved of snuck in our 1988 survey. Nevertheless, an examination of recent sources shows that snuck is sneaking up on sneaked. Snuck was almost 20 percent more common in newspaper articles published in 1995 than it was in 1985. Snuck also appears in the work of many respected columnists and authors: “He ran up huge hotel bills and then snuck out without paying” (George Stade). “He had snuck away from camp with a cabinmate” (Anne Tyler). “I ducked down behind the paperbacks and snuck out” (Garrison Keillor).

mooch

(mūch) Slang.

v., mooched, mooch·ing, mooch·es. v.tr.

1. To obtain or try to obtain by begging; cadge. See synonyms at cadge.
2. To steal; filch.

v.intr.

1. To get or try to get something free of charge; sponge: lived by mooching off friends.
2. To wander about aimlessly.
3. To skulk around; sneak.

n.

1. One who begs or cadges; a sponge.
2. A dupe, as in a confidence game.

[Middle English mowchen, probably from Old French muchier, to hide, skulk.]