[
UK
/klˈiːts/
]
[ US /ˈkɫits/ ]
[ US /ˈkɫits/ ]
NOUN
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shoes with leather or metal projections on the soles
the football players all wore cleats
How To Use cleats In A Sentence
- A group of soccer fanatics laced up their cleats Friday for what they fully intend to be a world-record-setting, 26-hour match.
- They watched as the sails were lowered, the lines tossed to dockworkers who tied bow, stern and spring lines to cleats lining the dock.
- Soccer players should also wear shoes with cleats or ribbed soles to prevent slipping.
- Nonchalant references to booms and jibs and kites and cleats and luffs and lees and heeling and tacking and pointing high can leave the nautical ingénue helpless in a riptide of argot.
- In addition the cleats on both the docks and boats need to be upgraded.
- They shout orders while the voyage crew, the 30 of us aboard for the day, struggle with oversized ropes and cleats under the guidance of the volunteer crew.
- Janir stood out in center field wearing his cleats, his uniform and the new glove we had bought and oiled.
- To eliminate undue stress, your cleats should be positioned so the ball of your foot is directly over the axle of the pedal.
- So, what's the deep meaning behind the baseball cleats?
- I looked down at Rizza's feet and noticed that she was wearing her cleats and on each shoe was seven small spikes.