Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - shoe

~1 n 1 something that you wear to cover your feet, made of leather or some other strong material  (Children grow out of shoes very quickly. | high-heeled shoes | a pair of tennis shoes)  (- compare boot1 (1), sandal, slipper) 2 a curved piece of iron that is nailed onto a horse's foot; horseshoe 3 be in sb's shoes to be in someone else's situation, especially a bad one  (I'm glad I'm not in his shoes with all those debts to pay off. | If I were in your shoes, I'd tell Jan to get lost!) 4 step into/fill sb's shoes to do a job that someone else used to do, and do it as well as they did  (It'll be hard to find someone to fill Pete's shoes.) 5 if the shoe fits (, wear it) AmE spoken used to say that if a remark that has been made about you is true, then you should accept it  ("Are you saying I'm a fool?" "If the shoe fits...") ~2 v past tense shod present participle shoeing 1 well/badly/elegantly etc shod especially literary wearing good, bad etc shoes 2 to put a shoe on a horse