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• n  a person who polishes shoes and boots

• Onetime newsboy and bootblack, he had total Manhattan realty holdings in 1928 of more than $50.
• Last week a new bootblack shined the Whalen shoesstill named Giuseppe Carnozzi but now clad in blue livery with brass buttons, with the title BOOTBLACK embroidered on cap .
• So the court surprised just about everyone last week when it upheld by a 5-to-4 vote the conviction of Leroy Powell, an Austin, Texas, bootblack who has been found guilty more .

• shoeblack

News & Articles

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• HOT PINK LIST 2013: BOOT BLACKS
  Midway through Folsom Street's dark Powerhouse leather bar, you'll find the bootblack, toiling away with a kit of rags and polish — break out your Stompers for a sublime shine.
  June 27, 2013 - San Francisco Bay Guardian

Quotes

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• Starkey in Bay Windows
  What an incredible honor to be voted International Mr. Bootblack 2010 by the attendees of IML,Starkey said. "As Mr. Boston Leather I said that I wanted world peace. Now as International Mr. Bootblack, I want hot men and women in well cared...