English

Noun

white-shoe ‎(plural white-shoes)

1. (US, slang) A stereotypical Ivy League student.

Adjective

white-shoe ‎(comparative more white-shoe, superlative most white-shoe)

1. (US, slang) Effeminate or immature.
2. (US, slang) Establishment; pertaining to mainstream US social power-structures.
   • 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin 2008, p. 26:

     Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression.

Derived terms

• white-shoe firm