Green’s Dictionary of Slang
track, n.1 one quart (757ml).
track, n.2 1. the highway or street as the home of tramps, prostitutes, pickpockets etc. 2. any outback road; also attrib. 3. a dancehall, a ballroom, esp. the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. 4. the world of pimping, hustling, confidence tricks etc; the Eastern cities are the fast track, California and the West are the slow track or soft track. 5. that area of a street where a prostitute works. 6. a criminal record.
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track, n.3 a warder who is bribed to smuggle items for the inmates.
track, n.4 see tracks n.
track, v.1 1. to go; thus track the dancers, to go upstairs. 2. to accompany with a boy- or girlfriend, to wander aimlessly. 3. to leave, to run off. 4. to maintain emotional or verbal stability, to ‘keep on the right track’; to understand. 5. to talk.
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track, v.2 to smuggle goods into/out of prison, thus tracker, one who smuggles.
track, v.3 to inject narcotics.
tracks, n. punctures and scar tissue that accumulate along the veins of a regular drug addict.
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track (up) the dancers
(v.)
to rush quickly up the stairs; also with down. under dancers, n.
Track, the, n. 1. the Tanami highway, running between the Stuart Highway (NT) and the Great Northern Highway (WA). 2. the bitumen-topped Stuart Highway running from Darwin to the south.
track dolie
(n.)
an itinerant. under track, n.2
track pizza
(n.)
one who throws themselves in front of a railway or subway train. under track, n.2
track thirteen
(n.)
1. in fig. use. 2. a life sentence. under track, n.2
track square
(v.)
to pursue a love affair with honourable intentions (i.e. eventual marriage rather than short-term sex). under track, v.1
track with
(v.)
to associate with someone of the opposite sex. under track, v.1
trackie, n.1 one who frequents a racetrack, e.g. a bookmaker, trainer, jockey, tout, tipster .
trackie, n.2 a tracksuit; also attrib; thus trackied up, wearing a tracksuit, trackie da(c)ks, tracksuit trousers.
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trackie’d
(adj.)
wearing a tracksuit. under trackie, n.2
trackie bums
(n.)
tracksuit trousers. under trackie, n.2
tracked up
(adj.)
of a narcotics addict, having one’s arms (and other parts of the body) covered in scars from injections. under tracks, n.
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