jelly shoe

English

Noun

jelly shoe (plural jelly shoes)

  1. A kind of PVC shoe, often brightly coloured, popular in the 1980s.
    Synonym: jelly
    • 2001, Rebecca Walker, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self:
      I put on a striped hooded sweatshirt I got from the five-dollar bin at the Esprit outlet, and my jelly shoes.