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shoeboxes

shoeboxes is the plural of shoebox.

Meaning of shoebox

Noun

shoebox (plural shoeboxes)

  1. The box in which shoes are sold.
    • In one shoebox he had a whole collection of seeds he had saved from last year.
  2. (derogatory, figuratively) A small, cramped residence or similar space.
    • She wondered how come Ho had a garden when everyone she knew lived in shoeboxes.2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 249

Questions about shoeboxes

What is shoeboxes the plural of?
Shoeboxes is the plural of shoebox.

Words near shoeboxes in the dictionary

  1. shoeblack
  2. shoeblacks
  3. shoebomber
  4. shoebombers
  5. shoebox
  6. shoeboxes
  7. shoeboxesful
  8. shoeboxful
  9. shoeboxfuls
  10. shoeboxlike
  11. shoebrush

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