Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A string or cord used for lacing and fastening shoes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shoe-string.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a length of cord for tying the upper parts of a shoe together. Commercial
shoelaces usually come in different lengths, and have each end confined in a narrow plastic tube for convenience in inserting the cords through the holes in a shoe upper. Also calledshoestring .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lace used forfastening ashoe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lace used for fastening shoes
- noun a lace used for fastening shoes
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Examples
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Act like a man, dont beat someone up for showing you your shoelace is untied.
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Then a rope, on the principle of a shoelace, is run through the eyelets, and on the principle of a shoelacing the man is laced in the canvas.
Chapter 7 2010
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So it might be useful to nudge Canada and say, "Hey, your shoelace is untied and you're going to trip ..."
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Then a rope, on the principle of a shoelace, is run through the eyelets, and on the principle of a shoelacing the man is laced in the canvas.
Chapter 7 1915
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Dear Congress, Remember when Ren was in that game of chicken on a tractor and the only reason he won was because his shoelace was wrapped around the pedal?
Kristin Wilson Keppler: More Stuff That Happens in the World When We're Watching Nickelodeon Kristin Wilson Keppler 2011
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Dear Congress, Remember when Ren was in that game of chicken on a tractor and the only reason he won was because his shoelace was wrapped around the pedal?
Kristin Wilson Keppler: More Stuff That Happens in the World When We're Watching Nickelodeon Kristin Wilson Keppler 2011
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People have a hard time paying bills on time or tying a shoelace, yet perform miracles on a regular basis.
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I thought she was someone sitting on the curb tying her shoelace, but something in me ole scavenger brain made me do a double-take.
Archive 2009-05-01 The Curious Holts 2009
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Yes | No | Report from deer dropper wrote 4 days 14 hours ago i've tried it and its hard but i used a shoelace and it probably takes practice.
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Yes | No | Report from deer dropper wrote 4 days 14 hours ago i've tried it and its hard but i used a shoelace and it probably takes practice.
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