Etymology

tracker

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Today it means: A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival. Full definition →

English track ← Middle English trak /tracke ← Old French trac
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The story

  1. Old Frenchtrac
  2. Middle Englishtrak /tracke
  3. Englishtrack
  4. English todaytracker

From track + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.