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winkle-pickers

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winkle-pickers
pl n
(Clothing & Fashion) shoes or boots with very pointed narrow toes, popular in the mid-20th century
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winkle-pickers
pl (Brit hum inf) → spitze Schuhe pl
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Winkle-pickers, tight black jeans, a white rock star T-shirt and a black waistcoat did not match my clean-cut boyish complexion.
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The nights that were filled with rock and jive, The winkle-pickers and big beehives, The laughs, the fights and sometimes tears, Good memories from all those years.
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He wore winkle-pickers, and he looked as if he had no face, just a white blur.
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