shoeblack
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shoeblack
Example Sentences
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Moore recently visited a fifth-grade classroom where student phones were placed in a shoe rack.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
So the two embarked on a survey in the university hostels asking a truly human question: if our sneakers reek, doesn't that ruin the entire experience of using a shoe rack?
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
There is an Argos shoe rack, a poster of Nefertiti on the wall, and a hot-pink copy of a Jeff Koons balloon-dog sculpture on a shelf.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 4, 2019
A female janitor steals a pair of high-heeled shoes from a hallway shoe rack.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2015
He put the bag down near a shoe rack and indicated that the boy should take off his sneakers.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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