(shoehorns, shoehorning, shoehorned)
1.
A shoehorn is a piece of metal or plastic with a slight curve that you put in the back of your shoe so that your heel will go into the shoe easily.
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2.
If you shoehorn something into a tight place, you manage to get it in there even though it is difficult.
Their cars are shoehorned into tiny spaces...
I was shoehorning myself into my skin-tight ball gown.
VERB: be V-ed into n, V n into n