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shoeshine Definition

shoe·shine (-shīn′)

noun

  1. the cleaning and polishing of a pair of shoes
  2. the shiny surface of polished shoes

shoeshine Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • boy: I also worked as a shoeshine boy, which I still do after school finishes.
  • man: The portrait was of a shoeshine man, but there was something about it that had the stance I needed.
  • box: Watching the sunset on the beach in Mazatlan drinking the mezcal the little kid brings in his shoeshine box.
shoeshine Quotes

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life† He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling backöthat's an earthquake.

—Miller, Arthur

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