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Plural of shoestring

regular plural

The plural of shoestring is shoestrings.

Forms of shoestring

Singularshoestring /ˈʃuːstɹɪŋ/
Pluralshoestrings
Countablecountable

Shoestrings in a sentence

  • He arrives at school every day with his shoestrings all knotted.From the entry knotted

Meaning of shoestring

  1. noun The string or lace used to secure a shoe to the foot; a shoelace.
  2. noun An object that is long and thin, like a shoestring (sense 1).
  3. noun A long, narrow cut of a food; a julienne.

Full definition of shoestring

Questions about the plural of shoestring

What is the plural of shoestring?
The plural of shoestring is shoestrings.
Is shoestring countable?
Shoestring is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoestring (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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