shoulder-to-shoulder

1. 1.

   side by side and close together

   “the troops marched shoulder-to-shoulder”

Questions about shoulder-to-shoulder

What does shoulder-to-shoulder mean?

shoulder-to-shoulder means "side by side and close together".

How many syllables are in shoulder-to-shoulder?

shoulder-to-shoulder has 5 syllables: shoul-der--to--shoul-der. The stress falls on "to-".

Is shoulder-to-shoulder a common word?

shoulder-to-shoulder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.