Definition of shoehorn
: a curved piece (as of horn, wood, or metal) used in putting on a shoe
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But what makes this shoehorn special is its length—30 inches—which allows its 6-foot 3-inch owner to put on the snuggest of loafers without sitting or bending down.
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In between, the show shoehorns social media into as many segments as possible, with sometimes-cringeworthy results.
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The Polynesian-themed bash shoehorns tropical drinks, Tiki art, surf rock, go-go dancers and an assorted of things for sale into one flea market.
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An image or phrase finds you, pleases you with its wit or vividness, shoehorns open your evolving vision of the fictive world, and before that change gets fully processed, here comes another.
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First Known Use of shoehorn
1589
Definition of shoehorn
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: to force to be included or admitted
- shoehorned irrelevant arguments into his essay
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: to force or compress into an insufficient space or period of time : squeeze
- shoehorn the past, present, and future into about 500 pages
- —Otis Port
Examples of shoehorn in a Sentence
A parking garage has been shoehorned between the buildings.
She's trying to shoehorn a year's worth of classes into a single semester.
I don't know how they managed to shoehorn everyone into that little room.
Recent Examples of shoehorn from the Web
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Those moments, though essentially shoehorned in, are crucial for the film to work.
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Those moments, though essentially shoehorned in, are crucial for the film to work.
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Trying to shoehorn some of that into the college space has created a lot of this problem.
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Fan-favorite songs are shamelessly shoehorned into the narrative, often to laughably literal effect: During namesake Margaritaville, which closes Act 1, Tully and his barfly buddies eat spongecake and search for a lost shaker of salt.
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Lue, who brought him to the Cavs, looked to shoehorn him into the rotation.
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But the coach can't do anything about the tight dimensions at Yankee Stadium, where NYCFC has shoehorned in a field that — at 68 by 106 yards — is the smallest in MLS.
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So wouldn’t Democrats attempt to shoehorn a DACA provision into the omnibus plan to fund the government?
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And Tyler Perry is such a routine target that the Razzies keep shoehorning him into categories that make no sense—like this year's nomination for Worst Screen Combo in Boo 2!
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First Known Use of shoehorn
1859
SHOEHORN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of shoehorn for English Language Learners
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: a curved device that you use to slide the heel of your foot into a shoe
shoehorn
Definition of shoehorn for English Language Learners
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: to force (something or someone) into a small space, a short period of time, etc.
SHOEHORN Defined for Kids
Definition of shoehorn for Students
: a curved piece (as of metal) to help in sliding the heel of the foot into a shoe
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