The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HEELS
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More clues leading to the result HEELS
- Underworld goddess grabbing last of these small stilettos?
- More than one cad gets better, we hear
- Lists 17A?
- Car avoiding Welsh inclines
- Cobbler does this for despicable people
- Rotter succeeded in high shoes
- Lists showing despicable people
- He is briefly in possession of the Spanish lists
- State makes better shoe components
- Turns round with missing shoes
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What does HEELS mean?
HEELS noun- The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
- The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
- The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
- The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
- (usually in the plural) A woman's high-heeled shoe.
- The back, upper part of the stock.
- The last or lowest part of anything.
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
- A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
- A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
- The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
- Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
- The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
- (specifically) The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
- (workman slang) A cyma reversa.
- The short side of an angled cut.
- The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
- The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead; as opposed to the toe (upper end).
- In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.
- The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.
- High-heeled shoes.