(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Shoes are objects which you wear on your feet. They cover most of your foot and you wear them over socks or stockings.
...a pair of ~s...
You don’t mind if I take my ~s off, do you?
N-COUNT
see also snow~ , training ~
2.
A ~ is the same as a horse~ .
N-COUNT
3.
When a blacksmith ~s a horse, they fix horse~s onto its feet.
Blacksmiths spent most of their time repairing tools and ~ing horses...
VERB: V n
4.
see also shod
5.
If you fill someone’s ~s or step into their ~s, you take their place by doing the job they were doing.
No one has been able to fill his ~s...
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
If you talk about being in someone’s ~s, you talk about what you would do or how you would feel if you were in their situation.
I wouldn’t want to be in his ~s.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR