Usually means: Certain to win or succeed.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoo-in: Merriam-Webster
  2. shoo-in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shoo-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shoo-in, shoo-in: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shoo-in: Vocabulary.com
  6. shoo-in: Wordnik
  7. shoo-in: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shoo-in: Wiktionary
  9. shoo-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shoo-in: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shoo-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shoo-in: Dictionary.com
  13. shoo-in: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. shoo-in: Rhymezone
  15. shoo-in: FreeDictionary.org
  16. shoo-in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. shoo-in: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Shoo-in: World Wide Words
  19. shoo-in: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. shoo-in: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoo-in: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoo-in: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shoo-in: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (horse racing) The winner of a fixed race, a fixed race.
noun:  (by extension, colloquial, originally US) A candidate or contestant generally agreed upon as the presumptive winner; a favorite, somebody who is well-liked or widely agreed upon.

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