Reverse Dictionary: SHOEBLACK

NOUNS – PERSON (a person who cleans the shoes of passers-by for payment)
1601 — BLACKING MAN a man who sells or manufactures blacking for shoes → hist.
1725 — JAPANNER a shoe-black → humorous usage, obs.
1819 — BLACKING MAN a street trader who polishes shoes with blacking → hist.
1889 — CARDINALS shoe-blacks → street sl.

VERBS
..L19 — HUSTLE SHOES  to work as a shoe-shine → sl.