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black shoe

black shoe noun: a person who works on an aircraft carrier but is not involved in flights.

Noun

black shoe (plural black shoes)

  1. (US) A person who works on an aircraft carrier but is not involved in flights.
    • Hayward served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36) as a “black shoe” engineer until he entered flight training at Pensacola, Florida, […]2016, James E. Wise, Jr.; Scott Baron, At the Helm of USS America, page 57
    • Towers attributed the whole catastrophe to the decision to put the carriers under the command of a black shoe like Kinkaid. As a result of that, he said, the United States was now without a single fully operational aircraft carrier in the whole of the Pacific Ocean.2022, Craig L. Symonds, Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, page 189

Forms of black shoe

pluralblack shoes

Questions about black shoe

What does black shoe mean?
Black shoe means a person who works on an aircraft carrier but is not involved in flights.
What part of speech is black shoe?
Black shoe is a noun.
What is the plural of black shoe?
The plural of black shoe is black shoes.

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