Definition of "shoeblack" []

• One who polishes shoes as an occupation. (noun)

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• ""Yes -- he's a--" I was going to say "shoeblack," but I stopped myself in time, and said, "a little boy.""
• "There is a boy, perhaps fifteen, pushing a wheelbarrow of small items that are for sale: a single roll of toilet paper, a neat metal disk containing shoeblack, and other soft clear plastic wrappers around fist-sized packages of nuts."
• "Oh, to miss the sight of her because I was wet through and bedraggled, and had not so much as five sous to give to a shoeblack for removing the least little spot of mud from my boot!"