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black shoes

black shoes is the plural of black shoe.

Meaning of black shoe

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

Questions about black shoes

What is black shoes the plural of?
Black shoes is the plural of black shoe.

Words near black shoes in the dictionary

  1. black sesame soups
  2. black shale
  3. black shales
  4. black sheep
  5. black shoe
  6. black shoes
  7. black sigatoka
  8. black silver
  9. black site
  10. black sites
  11. black skimmer

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