Tracy

plural Tracys · plural Tracies · alternative Tracey · alternative Traci · alternative Tracie

1. countableuncountableA surname from Old French.
2. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional 19th century and later usage.

   Tracy Kidder's specialty is putting ordinary people's lives and projects under a microscope and finding drama where few others would think to look. He established himself with [The Soul of a New Machine] (1981), a book detailing the human interactions behind the rush to create a new computer.

   1999 April 1, Katie Bacon, “Books & Authors”, in The Atlantic

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   "What's the first name?" […] "I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!" "Good God!" said Archie. "It couldn't really be that, could it?" Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest. "It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."

   1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC, page 219

3. countableuncountableA female given name transferred from the surname, popular in the 1960s and 1970s.

   Her name was Theresa (often Tracy) Oldenburg and she had eyes only for another young man, Richard Puls.

   1993, Wayne C. Lee, Bad Men and Bad Towns, Caxton Press, →ISBN, page 144

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   "That's her real name, you know. I mean, a lot of girls working the topless joints, they take exotic, sexy names...well, Tiffany Carter, for example...but that was the name Tracy was born with."

   1985, Ed McBain, Snow White and Rose Red, page 130

   His family, who live in West Des Moines, Iowa, have been left “devastated,” his owner Tracy Wolfe said in GWR press release. “He was just the best giant boy,” she added.

   2024 June 25, Issy Ronald, “Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies shortly after securing record”, in CNN

4. countableuncountableA village in Sunbury County, New Brunswick, Canada.
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA sizable city in San Joaquin County, California.

      A Tracy man is recovering from severe wounds after being gored by a bull.

      2018 July 8, “'I Was Going To Die': Man Gored By Bull In Tracy”, in CBS News

   2. countableuncountableA neighborhood in the town of Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
   3. countableuncountableA ghost town in Essex Township, Kankakee County, Illinois.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Union Township, LaPorte County, Indiana.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Barren County, Kentucky.
   7. countableuncountableA small city in Lyon County, Minnesota.
   8. countableuncountableA tiny city in Platte County, Missouri.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
   10. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Laramie County, Wyoming.