trannies
- 1Plural of tranny.
The junkyard had a stack of rebuilt trannies for older pickup trucks.
He swapped out the trannies in both of his project cars over the winter.
Note
Several meanings are casual shorthand for machines: car transmissions, transistor radios, electrical transformers and, in northern England, Ford Transit vans. Used of transgender people it is an offensive slur, and because the plural looks the same in every sense, it is safest kept to plainly mechanical contexts, or avoided altogether.
- 2Plural of trannie.
Note
Two singular spellings meet in one plural here: tranny and trannie both become trannies, so print never shows which singular a writer used, and this form cannot be told apart from the usual plural. The variant spelling is found for a car's transmission and for the offensive term for transgender people, so context alone decides which is meant.
trannies is a form of tranny
tranny, noun: The transmission of a car or other vehicle. Full entry
- Forms
- trannytrannies plural
- Spelling
- tranny → trannies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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