toe-box

toe box

noun
a piece of stiffened material, as leather, placed between the lining and the toecap of a shoe.

Origin:
1925–30

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toe box

noun
the forward tip of the upper of a shoe or boot that provides space and protection for the toes; "the toe box may be rounded or pointed" 
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Toe-box is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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