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  • noun Plural form of shoe.

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  • noun a particular situation

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  • do shoes have souls?

    December 6, 2006

  • Captured at Yorktown: "16 pair of shoes," and received from the British "Deputy-Quarter-Master" and "adjudged to be forfeited, and consequently seized," 1348 pairs of shoes.

    October 29, 2007

  • September 7, 2008

  • So I guess this video is an example of "a particular situation" or "a condition or position in which you find yourself" (per Weirdnet). Actually it reminds me of Divine and her cha-cha shoes in Female Trouble.

    September 7, 2008

  • The blacksmith shoes the horses. For the verb 'to shoe'.

    March 12, 2012