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n. A boy who polishes shoes as an occupation.
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"Shoeshine Boy" is a 1975 R&B/pop single by Eddie Kendricks. The single was the last of his three number-one U.S. R&B hits and one of his final crossover singles, peaking at number eighteen on the Billboard Hot 100.
Shoeshine boy or shoe shine boy may refer to;
- Shoeshiner, the occupation of a person who shines shoes, known as shoeshine boys as the job is traditionally that of a male child
- Shoeshine Boy, a 1975 single by singer Eddie Kendricks
- Shoeshine Boy (Underdog), a character from the animated series Underdog
- Shoe Shine Boy, a song from the film "Connie's Hot Chocolates Of 1936" written by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn
- Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy, a popular song written by Harry Stone and Jack Stapp which was a number one hit for Red Foley in the United States in 1950
- Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy, a novel by Doug Stumpf currently being adapted into a screenplay
- Shoe Shine Boy, a 1943 film musical
- Shoe Shine Boys, a 2000 film
Usage examples of "shoeshine boy".
But a young shoeshine boy testified that he'd been hiding outside the bank, waiting for something to see, when a door above him opened and a man looked out.
There was nothing to be done, and with my experience I knew my best plan was to present an appearance of honest poverty, so I spent some money on a bath, and washed the handkerchief I wore around my throat in the bathwater, and got a street shoeshine boy to do what he could with my dreadful shoes, which were almost falling apart.
The two watchers across the square had seen the shoeshine boy do his job and shuffle away.
A shoeshine boy less than a yard past the turn of the alley corner was kneeling industriously to his task over a customer's raised foot.
He immediately contacted a disreputable shoeshine boy and bought a pound of marijuana.
The shoeshine boy of course tipped off the border guards, and when Harry attempted to walk across the bridge to the States they stripped him naked.
Seems like, in the words of someone, every goddamn barber and shoeshine boy who was drafted had written a book about how he won the war.
Those who saw him put him down as either an African politician, a Cuban revolutionary, a Brazilian snake charmer, or just a plain ordinary Harlem shoeshine boy.
But now also this leisurely daytime street of corner loafers and the Horatio Alger shoeshine boy.
As if Chase had blithely pulled the trigger, waded through the blood of his victims, and then had gone in search of a good shoeshine boy to buff the stains off his boots.
Not one day in anyone's life, so her father taught, is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Downs syndrome child.