white-shoe adjective 2noun 1forms 3 adjective2 •(US, slang) Establishment; pertaining to mainstream US social power-structures.Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression. — 2007 •(US, slang) Effeminate or immature. noun1 •(US, slang) A stereotypical male Ivy League college student. formswhite-shoes · more white-shoe · most white-shoe