White-shoe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: White-shoe is a noun meaning (US, slang) A stereotypical male Ivy League college student.
Meaning
(US, slang) A stereotypical male Ivy League college student.
More Meanings
- (US, slang) Effeminate or immature.
- (US, slang) Establishment; pertaining to mainstream US social power-structures.
Example Sentences
Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression.
In “Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change,” Ellen K. Pao traces a journey of disillusionment that culminated in the lawsuit she brought against her employer, the white-shoe venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, for gender discrimination.
Word Forms
- white-shoes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ivory, shoey, snob, queener, dweeb, whipster.
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