golden shoe en · NOUN
Etymology
Calque of French soulier d'or.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A prize awarded each season to the player with the most points in league matches from the top division of a national league.
[Marc Lloyd] Williams lost out on the Golden Shoe to Sporting's [Mario] Jardel and would have needed an improbable tally of 64 goals to claim the prize.
2014 February 5, Gregg Bakowski, “The Golden Shoe: is it time to give the weighting system the boot?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| the golden shoe | canonical | lexicographic | |
| golden shoes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |