shoehornnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈʃuː.hɔːn/us/ˈʃuː.hɔːrn/a smooth, curved piece of plastic or metal that you hold in the back of your shoe when putting it on, to help your foot slide into it
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Shoes
- ankle boot
- ballet shoe
- Birkenstock
- bootlace
- bootstrap
- brogue
- gumboot
- high heels
- high-top
- hobnail boot
- insole
- instep
- shoelace
- shoestring
- shoetree
- skyscraper heels
- slingbacks
- spat
- welly
- whitening
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shoehornverb [ T often passive ]
uk/ˈʃuː.hɔːn/us/ˈʃuː.hɔːrn/informalto fit something tightly in a particular place, often between two other things:
This tiny restaurant is shoehorned between two major banks.
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Inserting and forcing things into other things
- cram
- dig (sth) into sb/sth
- embed
- embedded
- imbed
- in
- insert
- inset
- interlace
- interpolate
- interpose
- intersperse
- interspersed
- jam
- let
- let sth into sth
- lodge
- squash
- stick
- thread
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