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Definition of shoe-leather
shoe-leather 
adjective
- of a profession, involving "old fashioned" walking around.
Citation from "What a Hundred Million Calls to 311 Reveal About New York", Wired (magazine), November 1 2010 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Oct 11 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 09 2010.
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