bolear

Mexican Spanish for shining or polishing shoes — bolear los zapatos — a livelihood word tied to the boleros (shoeshiners) who work city plazas. A secondary, less common sense covers kneading dough or a similar working-over-with-the-hands motion.

• El niño se ganaba unas monedas boleando zapatos en la plaza. — The boy earned some coins shining shoes in the plaza.
• Le pidió al bolero que le boleara los zapatos antes de la reunión. — He asked the shoeshiner to polish his shoes before the meeting.
• Mi abuela todavía bolea el pan a mano. — My grandmother still kneads the bread by hand.

This is a Mexican regionalism — outside Mexico, lustrar or limpiar los zapatos are the more universally understood ways to say 'to shine shoes.'