Definition of shoe-leather

shoe-leather    

adjective

• of a profession, involving "old fashioned" walking around.

                                                                                                                                  
  
  Citation from "What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York", Wired (magazine), November 1 2010 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Oct 11 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 09 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'leather':
leather cheerio	Definitions include: anus.
pleather	Definitions include: fake leather.
Other terms relating to 'shoe':
CMFM shoes	Definitions include: "catch me, fuck me" shoes.
goody two-shoes	Definitions include: an extremely well-behaved person.
in (one's) shoes	Definitions include: in one's current situation.
shoe	Definitions include: to throwing a shoe at a person or people.
shoes	Definitions include: car wheels.
walk a mile in (one's) shoes	Definitions include: to experience what another person experiences.

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