shoenoun [ C ]
uk/ʃuː/us/ʃuː/A1 one of a pair of coverings for your feet, usually made of a strong material such as leather, with a thick leather or plastic sole (= base) and usually a heel:
flat/high-heeled shoes
running/tennis shoes
He put on/took off his new pair of shoes.
Hurry and do up/lace up your shoes.
a shoe shop
a horseshoe
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- I got some shoes cheap in the sale.
- Do your shoes up before you trip over.
- These are the running shoes favoured by marathon runners.
- handmade shoes
- His shoes left muddy marks on the floor.
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Shoes
- ankle boot
- ballet shoe
- Birkenstock
- bootlace
- bootstrap
- brogue
- gumboot
- high heels
- high-top
- hobnail boot
- insole
- instep
- shoehorn
- shoelace
- shoestring
- shoetree
- skyscraper heels
- wellington
- welly
- whitening
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Horse riding
Idiom(s)
be in sb's shoes
if I were in your shoes
step into sb's shoes
shoeverb [ T ]
uk/ʃuː/us/ʃuː/present participle shoeing, past tense and past participle shod or US also shoedIf you shoe a horse, you nail a horseshoe (= a curved piece of metal) to one or each of its feet.
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Horse riding
- curry
- dismount
- dressage
- gait
- gymkhana
- high-spirited
- horseback riding
- horseshoe
- horsey
- jib at sth
- mount
- mounted
- prance
- puissance
- rein
- rein sth in
- showjumping
- silk
- trot
- unsaddle
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