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  • noun Plural form of shoepack.

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Examples

  • And while he wore the uniform shirt, it was tucked into a pair of faded blue jeans, and the shiny half boots had given way to shoepacks, scuffed and muddy.

    A Grave Denied Stabenow, Dana 2003

  • Those who could not make shoes, could make shoepacks.

    Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley

  • His next act was to untie hastily the strings of his shoepacks, and slipping out the footgear, knotted the laces and strung the shoepacks about his neck.

    The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers Claude A. Labelle

  • Evidently suspicious that Phil might have some other weapon concealed about him, they made him unlace and take off his shoepacks; here, of course, they found nothing, but fortunately they did not notice the secret pocket that he had made in the lapel of his coat, in which reposed safely his heavy scout knife.

    The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers Claude A. Labelle

  • Finally he reached the road, and here he slipped the heavy shoepacks on, and in a few moments had rejoined his companions where they were nervously waiting under the big elm.

    The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers Claude A. Labelle

  • Without bothering to put on his shoepacks, he sped away from the house.

    The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers Claude A. Labelle

  • Added to this was the fact that they wore forest shoepacks, those high laced moccasins with an extra leather sole, and felt campaign hats.

    The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers Claude A. Labelle

  • "This is a wife to be defended," said Shoepack Sam, padding there with his yellow shoepacks bringing another drink.

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Just before they started down a hill on the outskirts of Escoumains, they all stopped to empty out their shoepacks.

    Bob Hunt in Canada George W. Orton 1915

  • This information caused Bill and Pud to look at their shoepacks with more care.

    Bob Hunt in Canada George W. Orton 1915

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