"shoe polish" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shoe polishes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} shoe polish (countable and uncountable, plural shoe polishes)
  1. A product rubbed onto shoes to make them shine. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Liquids Synonyms: blacking, shoepolish Related terms: shoe brush, shoe-leather, shoeshine, shoeshine boy, shoeshine girl Translations (product used to make shoes shine): koaraj [masculine] (Breton), паста за обувки (pasta za obuvki) (Bulgarian), crema de sabates [feminine] (Catalan), betum [masculine] (Catalan), mankhwala a nsapato (Chichewa), 鞋油 (xiéyóu) (Chinese Mandarin), krém na boty [masculine] (Czech), schoensmeer [neuter] (Dutch), ŝupolurilo (Esperanto), kengänkiillote (Finnish), kengänkiilloke (Finnish), lankki (Finnish), kenkälankki (Finnish), cirage [masculine] (French), Schuhcreme [feminine] (German), Schuhpasta [feminine] (German), Schuhpaste [feminine] (German), Schuhwichse [feminine] (German), cirajo (Ido), semir sepatu (Indonesian), cera de scarpas (lustrar) (Interlingua), lucido per scarpe (Italian), 靴墨 (kutsuzumi) (alt: くつずみ) (Japanese), 靴クリーム (kutsu kurīmu) (Japanese), bliatchîn [Jersey, masculine] (Norman), blyakyĩ [Sark, masculine] (Norman), skokrem [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), skokrem [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), لوسترو (lustro, lostro) (Ottoman Turkish), واکس (vâks) (Persian), pasta do butów [feminine] (Polish), pasta [feminine] (Polish), wiksa [dialectal, feminine] (Polish), graxa [feminine] (Portuguese), graxa de sapato [feminine] (Portuguese), крем для о́буви (krem dlja óbuvi) [masculine] (Russian), ва́кса (váksa) (english: blacking) [feminine] (Russian), гутали́н (gutalín) (english: blacking) [masculine] (Russian), krém na topánky [masculine] (Slovak), betún [masculine] (Spanish), dawa ya viatu (Swahili), skokräm [common-gender] (Swedish), betun (Tagalog), lostra (Turkish), ayakkabı boyası (Turkish)

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          "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
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          "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
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          "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
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      "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
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      ],
      "word": "krém na topánky"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "betún"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
      "word": "dawa ya viatu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skokräm"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
      "word": "betun"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
      "word": "lostra"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "product used to make shoes shine",
      "word": "ayakkabı boyası"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shoe polish"
}

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