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noun 
  1. A tool used to assist the foot into a shoe by sliding the heel in.
Translations: 
  • French: chausse-pied
  • German: Schuhanzieher , Schuhlí¶ffel
  • Italian: calzascarpe
verb 
  1. To exert great effort to insert or include something; to insert by force or extreme measures.
    They shoehorned the extra appointment into an already packed schedule.
  2. To use a shoehorn.
Etymology: From shoe + horn


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