jelly shoe

Meanings

nounjelly shoe (plural jelly shoes)

A kind of PVC shoe, often brightly coloured, popular in the 1980s.
I put on a striped hooded sweatshirt I got from the five-dollar bin at the Esprit outlet, and my jelly shoes.
2001, Rebecca Walker, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
Synonyms: jelly

nounA kind of PVC shoe, often brightly coloured, popular in the 1980s.

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