Definition of "half-tracks" [half-tracks]

• Plural form of half-track. (noun)

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• "Rough-terrain maneuvers required armored vehicles, called half-tracks, to tear across open country at forty miles an hour while the gunners operating the fifty-caliber guns mounted on its back shot at an aerial target."
• "I had driven Jeeps and half-tracks, and I didn't have a job, so I just took it, Stribling said."
• "A couple of half-tracks and Hetzers, some trucks lugging Panzerabwehrwerfers, their wheels over the dusty road, a few escort vehicles rolling along the side, falling back and then pulling up."