tennies means Trainers, sneakers (sport shoes). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 92 out of 100.
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- Trainers, sneakers (sport shoes).“The Moore Brothers is a white-boys blues band almost stereotypical in its composition: an energetic, toothpick-chewing drummer; a scrawny, ascetic bass player who stood shorter than his upright bass; a clean-cut Charlie in polo shirt and tennies fingering some classic blues solos--sans painful facial expressions--and the leader, an Andy Renko sort singing and occasionally diddling on harp and keep”