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cement shoes

cement shoes noun: a largely-apocryphal method of execution or dead-body disposal said to be used by the Mafia or other similar organized crime groups, wherein a block of concrete is poured around the victim's feet and allowed to set before the victim is thrown into a body of water (to drown if still alive).

Noun

cement shoes pl (plural only)

  1. (euphemistic, plural, plural-only, crime) A largely-apocryphal method of execution or dead-body disposal said to be used by the Mafia or other similar organized crime groups, wherein a block of concrete is poured around the victim's feet and allowed to set before the victim is thrown into a body of water (to drown if still alive).
    Synonyms:
    concrete shoes

Synonyms of cement shoes

Questions about cement shoes

What does cement shoes mean?
Cement shoes means a largely-apocryphal method of execution or dead-body disposal said to be used by the Mafia or other similar organized crime groups, wherein a block of concrete is poured around the victim's feet and allowed to set before the victim is thrown into a body of water (to drown if still alive).
What part of speech is cement shoes?
Cement shoes is a noun.

Words near cement shoes in the dictionary

  1. cement hands
  2. cement mixer
  3. cement mixers
  4. cement overcoat
  5. cement overcoats
  6. cement shoes
  7. cement steel
  8. cement steels
  9. cement together
  10. cement works
  11. cementable

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