shoeshine
IPA: ʃˈuʃaɪn
noun
- The act of polishing shoes.
- One who polishes shoes.
- The shiny finish on shoes that have been polished.
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Examples of "shoeshine" in Sentences
- Cowans worked as a shoeshine boy as a child.
- This article is in need of some serious shoeshine.
- At the age of 12, Adam began work as a shoeshine boy.
- His first job was as a shoeshine boy in a whites only barber shop.
- Before this, he was a shoeshine boy in Times Square and worked in an automat.
- Left alone by his mother's illness, he takes the bus to his route and stops by a hotel where the bellman buttons his shirt cuffs and the shoeshine man ties his laces while Bill cheerfully tells them bad traveling salesman jokes.
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