Usually means: Forcibly inserted where not fitting.
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  1. shoehorned: Merriam-Webster
  2. shoehorned: Vocabulary.com
  3. shoehorned: Wordnik
  4. shoehorned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. shoehorned: Wiktionary
  6. shoehorned: Dictionary.com
  7. shoehorned: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. shoehorned: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shoehorn)

noun:  A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place.
noun:  (derogatory) Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
noun:  (obsolete) Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
verb:  (literally) To use a shoehorn.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.
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