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US
/ˈʃuˌʃaɪn/
]
[ UK /ʃˈuːʃaɪn/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈuːʃaɪn/ ]
NOUN
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the act of shining shoes
he charged a dollar for a shoeshine -
a shiny finish put on shoes with polish and buffing
his trousers had a sharp crease and you could see your reflection in his shoeshine
How To Use shoeshine In A Sentence
- The evening takes the form of a memory play told by the elderly Kat, now a shoeshine boy working the streets, who looks back at his younger self.
- The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine.
- Whatever it was, Fleck found himself looking forward to his shoeshine. TALKING GOD
- There is some shoeshine paper in the closet, sir.
- 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. A New Yorker Who Shines
- Who has not used the services of a shoeshine boy or a young caretaker of cars? Global Voices in English » Latin America: The Problem of Child Labor – Part I
- The report said that that 75 percent of the children do menial jobs, such as street vending and domestic service, or work as shoeshine boys, car caretakers, and in agriculture.
- Toledo was the country's first president of self-identified indigenous descent, a one-time shoeshine boy who had gone on to earn a doctorate in education at Stanford.
- For sixty-four bars he synchronizes his every movement with Fred, playing flawlessly before a camera that runs nonstop, until he's no longer giving a dancelike performance at a shoeshine stand, but dancing.
- Imagine it - scruffy shoeshiners and grungy postcard sellers getting the chance to enjoy what so many of us take for granted.