shoe string

Questions about shoe string

What does shoe string mean?

shoe string means "a small amount of money". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for shoe string?

Close synonyms include shoestring, shoelace, shoe lace, shoestring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shoe string a common word?

shoe string is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.