sneakerprint

English

Etymology

From sneaker +‎ print.

Noun

sneakerprint (plural sneakerprints)

1. The impression left by a sneaker.
   • 1983, Stephen King, Christine, New York, N.Y.: The New American Library, Inc., page 141:

     A little distance to his left was a lunch-sack, squashed flat. There was a large sneakerprint in the middle of it.

   • 1989, Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, page 726:

     Two other prosecution witnesses testified to having seen blood on the defendant’s shirt and sneakers and bloody sneakerprints were observed at the crime scene.

   • 1993, “Commonwealth v. LaPlante”, in Massachusetts Reports, page 437:

     In conducting a search for evidence in the area surrounding the Gustafson residence, the Townsend police chief, William May, noticed several sneakerprints in a flower bed along the front of the house.

   • 2003, Jens Soering, “Intermezzo”, in The Way of the Prisoner: Breaking the Chains of Self Through Centering Prayer and Centering Practice, New York, N.Y.: Lantern Books, →ISBN, section 1 (The Investigation), page 106:

     Almost all the prints on the kitchen, dining room and living room floors had been wiped away in what must have been an extensive attempt to cover the killer’s (or killers’) tracks, but three very smeared impressions in the blood remained: two were sockprints corresponding to “a size 6½ to 7½ woman’s shoe or a size 5 to 6 man’s shoe,” and the last one was a sneakerprint of a size that fit a “woman or small boy.”