shoe polish

shoe polish

n. liquor; whiskey; inferior whiskey. The old lush would be delighted to get some of your shoe polish.
See also: polish, shoe
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • berpwater
  • shoe
  • shoe up
  • old
  • rotgut
  • for want of a nail
  • For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse ...
  • an
  • no Shinola
  • No Shinola!
References in periodicals archive
The report predicts the global shoe polish market to grow with a CAGR of 2.75% over the forecast period from 2019-2025.
Also, what if no one knew the shoe polish repels water?
Make sure the surface is clean and dry, then work the shoe polish into the scratch.
The Shoe for Aid campaign is supported by shoe polish company Kiwi, which is part of the Sara Lee group.
On May 29, she found the words "In God We Trust or?" scrawled in shoe polish in foot-high letters across two windows and a sliding-glass door of her house.
Shoe polish, eyebrow pencils, markers, watercolors, fingernail polish and iodine thinned to the right shade with denatured alcohol are just a few of the possibilities.
Shoe polish Did you know there are at least 10 grades of shoe leather polish?
I'd simply give it a good polish with a neutral shoe polish (paste), buff it up and then admire your handiwork.
Whereas boys aged 12-17 years were more likely to inhale nitrous oxide, sometimes sold in vials called whippets, to get high, girls that age were more likely to use just about every other form of inhalant, including glue, shoe polish, toluene, spray paint, correction fluid, aerosol hair sprays, and air fresheners (see bar graph, right).
Boys aged 12-17 years were more likely to inhale nitrous oxide, sometimes sold in vials called whippets, to get high, but girls in that age range were more likely to use other forms of inhalants, including glue, shoe polish, spray paint, and aerosol hair sprays.
If his hearing fails him, sometimes he will look for evidence-like shoe polish.
The types of inhalants most frequently mentioned as having been used by recent initiates included glue, shoe polish, or toluene (30.3 percent); gasoline or lighter fluid (24.9 percent); nitrous oxide or "whippets" (24.9 percent); and spray paints (23.4 percent).
Such products include glue, shoe polish, gasoline, lighter fluid, and the propellants in spray deodorant, hair sprays, and canned whipped cream.
The most commonly used inhalants reported were glue, shoe polish and gasoline.