(countable and uncountable) Leather that is used to make shoes. / (uncountable) Leather from which shoes are made that is worn out through walking.

Basic, old-fashioned or traditional; specifically (journalism) shoe-leather journalism or shoe-leather reporting: journalism involving walking from place to place observing things and speaking to people, rather than sitting indoors at a desk.

Alternative form of shoe-leather.

plural of shoe-leather

plural of shoe leather

(idiomatic, archaic) As ever existed or lived.

(idiomatic, archaic) Alternative form of as ever trod shoe-leather