Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

black shoe

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.21 in modern English

Syllables: black- shoe
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who works on an aircraft carrier but is not involved in flights.

American usage

Example Sentences

"Hayward served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36) as a “black shoe” engineer until he entered flight training at Pensacola, Florida, […]"
"Towers attributed the whole catastrophe to the decision to put the carriers under the command of a black shoe like Kinkaid. As a result of that, he said, the United States was now without a single fully operational aircraft carrier in the whole of the Pacific Ocean."

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

black shoes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

brown shoe

Questions

What does black shoe mean?: A person who works on an aircraft carrier but is not involved in flights.

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