noun

• A person employed to polish boots and shoes.

  ‘Similar databases monitoring the investment policies and current rates of cab drivers, short-order cooks, and bootblacks are rapidly gaining in popularity.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Newsboys and bootblacks accounted for 27 percent of all arrested.’
  • ‘He avoided factory settings; his heroes were newsboys, bootblacks, and clerks.’
  • ‘Tinu, a bootblack, was so fascinated by the show that he strayed into the audience.’
  • ‘They came to work in the large industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest as factory laborers, peddlers, busboys, and bootblacks.’