SHOEHORN


Meaning of SHOEHORN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃu:hɔ:(r)n ]

( shoehorns, shoehorning, shoehorned)

1.

A shoehorn is a piece of metal or plastic with a slight curve that you put in the back of your shoe so that your heel will go into the shoe easily.

N-COUNT

2.

If you shoehorn something into a tight place, you manage to get it in there even though it is difficult.

Their cars are shoehorned into tiny spaces...

I was shoehorning myself into my skin-tight ball gown.

VERB : be V-ed into n , V n into n

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