noun, verb
noun a curved piece of plastic or metal, used to help your heel slide into a shoe
verb [VN+adv./prep.] to succeed in putting sth into a small space or a place where it does not fit very easily:
They managed to shoehorn the material onto just one CD.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shoehorn is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does shoehorn appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — shoehorn appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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