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.
- Who has not used the services of a shoeshine boy or a young caretaker of cars?
- They're on sale in stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Allen Edmonds, not at shoeshine stands.
- A sister-in-law who preceded her in the shoeshine business spent a week teaching her the trade.
- The shoeshine stand had a small pile of boxed galoshes for sale: Totes and Tingley's at about $25.
- There are segments on poverty and its effects, including one of the recurring characters, a 9-year-old shoeshine boy in Latin America.
- "It's not too hard, compared to another work," she said of the shoeshine business, even though she admitted that by evening her fingers no longer function.
- Another threat to his business, he explained, are customers who work in Midtown or Wall Street, where the shoeshine men are willing to shine your shoes at your desk.
- One can't help but experience a sense of well-being while reading "Page Six" of the shoeshine shop's New York Post and watching riders emerge from underground in waves.
- I'm thinking, in particular, of Jenny Gomez, who shines shoes at 77th Shoe Repair, a shoeshine shop situated at the top of the No. 6 line subway stairs just off the northeast corner of 77th Street and Lexington Avenue.
- 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.
- But what may be most remarkable about her is that her impeccable standards never flag, no matter how late in the day, no matter how tired, no matter how many customers are waiting their turn to mount one of the shop's three shoeshine thrones.