shoefiti

shoefiti
 n.— «

Shoefiti…Beginning last fall, I started sending “Street Light Outage” reports to Xcel
whenever I spotted a pair of shoes on lines in our fair city.

» —“Shoefiti” by Ed Kohler in Minneapolis Mpls—Minneapolis Issues Forum June 27, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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