shoeshine
[ shoo-shahyn ]
noun
an act or instance of cleaning and polishing a pair of shoes.
the surface of a polished shoe or shoes.
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How to use shoeshine in a sentence
He wanted to change “Free to wait tables and shine shoes,” because he said he wasn’t sure that shoeshine boys were Puerto Rican.
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British Dictionary definitions for shoeshine
shoeshine
/ (ˈʃuːˌʃaɪn) /
noun
the act or an instance of polishing a pair of shoes
the appearance or shiny surface of polished shoes
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