shoeshine

[ shoo-shahyn ]

noun
  1. an act or instance of cleaning and polishing a pair of shoes.

  2. the surface of a polished shoe or shoes.

Origin of shoeshine

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How to use shoeshine in a sentence

  • You with your pretty man suit and your hair and finger-nails polished like a shoe-shine.

    Just Around the Corner | Fannie Hurst
  • Of course one has to clean one's own boots, unless one is near a "Shoe-shine Parlour" in some large town.

    Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan | Frances Halton Eva Hasell
  • More than likely, when he comes to pay you your wages, he'll take out the price of a shoe shine.

    Randy of the River | Horatio Alger Jr.
  • She has dressed in a red sweater and plied her trade, for a day, as a shoe-shine boy.

    An Ocean Tramp | William McFee
  • "I must get a shoe shine," said Tavia, as they stepped on the platform of the big depot.

    Dorothy Dale's Camping Days | Margaret Penrose

British Dictionary definitions for shoeshine

shoeshine

/ (ˈʃuːˌʃaɪn) /


noun
  1. the act or an instance of polishing a pair of shoes

  2. the appearance or shiny surface of polished shoes

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