tract
A major passage way within the body, large bundle of nerve fibers, or other continuous elongated anatomical structure or region.
Example:
I went to the doctor and was told I have an upper respiratory tract infection in my throat.
My girlfriend went to the gyno and has a urinary tract infection or uti.
I went to the doctor and was told I have an upper respiratory tract infection in my throat.
My girlfriend went to the gyno and has a urinary tract infection or uti.
Tract
tracts of land
Example:
"Don't like her?! What's wrong with her? She's beautiful,
she's rich, she's got huge... tracts of land."
Bro 1: "Yo, I'm telling you dawg, that chick was fine."
Bro 2: "WTF! That buffoocka was a 4/10, at best!"
Bro 1: "Naw man, she got HUGE tracts of land."
"Don't like her?! What's wrong with her? She's beautiful,
she's rich, she's got huge... tracts of land."
Bro 1: "Yo, I'm telling you dawg, that chick was fine."
Bro 2: "WTF! That buffoocka was a 4/10, at best!"
Bro 1: "Naw man, she got HUGE tracts of land."
pissinary tract
Tract housing
Tract housing (also known as cookie-cutter housing) is a style of housing development in which multiple identical or nearly-identical homes are built to create a community. Tract housing developments may encompass dozens of square miles. Tract housing developments are typically found in North American suburbs that were modeled on the "Levittown" concept.
Tract housing development only makes use of a few designs, and labor costs are reduced because workers only need to learn the skills and movements of constructing a limited variety of home designs. In addition, as all homes in the development will be built at the same time, the cost of purchasing and transporting building supplies may be reduced due to economies of scale. Components such as roof trusses, plumbing trees, and stair systems are often fabricated in factories and installed on site. This allows contractors to reduce prices, which in turn can make homes more affordable (and more accessible to a larger percentage of the population) and may also allow contractors to reap higher profits.
Early tract homes were often identical, but more recently built tract homes no longer look identical from the exterior.
The concept of tract housing is occasionally mocked in American popular culture as the basis of a sterile and dispiriting suburbia. Nonetheless, the use of tract housing in new American suburban developments continues to dominate.
Tract housing development only makes use of a few designs, and labor costs are reduced because workers only need to learn the skills and movements of constructing a limited variety of home designs. In addition, as all homes in the development will be built at the same time, the cost of purchasing and transporting building supplies may be reduced due to economies of scale. Components such as roof trusses, plumbing trees, and stair systems are often fabricated in factories and installed on site. This allows contractors to reduce prices, which in turn can make homes more affordable (and more accessible to a larger percentage of the population) and may also allow contractors to reap higher profits.
Early tract homes were often identical, but more recently built tract homes no longer look identical from the exterior.
The concept of tract housing is occasionally mocked in American popular culture as the basis of a sterile and dispiriting suburbia. Nonetheless, the use of tract housing in new American suburban developments continues to dominate.
Example:
Laura spends her days in her tract housing community with her young son while her husband goes off to work. She leaves only to run trivial errands like buying flour or getting a haircut. On the surface they are living the American Dream; she is nevertheless deeply unhappy.
Laura spends her days in her tract housing community with her young son while her husband goes off to work. She leaves only to run trivial errands like buying flour or getting a haircut. On the surface they are living the American Dream; she is nevertheless deeply unhappy.
Tract dat
A phrase commonly used in the GTA, short form for "retract". Used to express that you want someone to take back something they said that was offensive.
Example:
Example:
Person 1: Fuck you bro or Imma know you out wallahi.
Person 2: You better tract dat fam, don't test me.
Example:
Person 1: Fuck you bro or Imma know you out wallahi.
Person 2: You better tract dat fam, don't test me.
chick tract
A comic book written by an insane Christian fundie, documenting a series of paranoid delusions that are not only objectively wrong, but often absolute nonsense as well. Notable for being surprisingly fun to parody.
Example:
"Debbie, your cleric has been raised to the eighth level. I think it's time that you learn how to really cast spells."
-Dark Dungeons Chick Tract
"Debbie, your cleric has been raised to the eighth level. I think it's time that you learn how to really cast spells."
-Dark Dungeons Chick Tract