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black shoe

noun

Definitions

  1. A person who works on an aircraft carrier but is not involved in flights.

    • Hayward served aboard the aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36) as a “black shoe” engineer until he entered flight training at Pensacola, Florida, […]

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