# Boot (disambiguation)

A boot is a type of footwear.
Boot(s) may also refer to:

## Businesses

* Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England
* Boots (company), a high-street pharmacy chain and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom
* The Boot, Cromer Street, a pub in King's Cross, London

## Places

* Boot, Cumbria, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England
* Boot Key, an island in the Florida Keys
* Boot Lake (Nova Scotia), Canada
* Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
* Boot Rock, South Sandwich Islands
* Boots Creek (Manitoba), Canada
* "The Boot", an informal name for Italy, due to the country's shape

## People with the name

* Boot (surname), a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots
* Boots (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
* Boots (musician), an American record producer
* Gypsy Boots (1914–2004), also known as Boots Bootzin, American fitness pioneer, actor and writer born Robert Bootzin
* Little Boots, English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional characters

* Boot, an Old English Sheepdog in The Perishers, a British cartoon strip
* Terry Boot, a member of Dumbledore's Army in the Harry Potter series
* William Boot, the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop
* Boots, a tiger who sang and played guitar in the ITV children's series Animal Kwackers
* Boots, the title character of the American comic strip Boots and Her Buddies, shortened by some newspapers as Boots
* Boots, the hero of the Norwegian fairy tale "Boots and the Troll"
* Boots, a monkey on the television series Dora the Explorer
* Boots Malone, the title character of the film Boots Malone
* Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, a main character in the Bruno and Boots children's novel series

### Films

* Boots (film), a 1919 American silent film starring Dorothy Gish and Richard Barthelmess
* Das Boot ("The Boat"), a 1981 German movie by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name

### Music
#### Labels

* Boot Records, a former Canadian country, bluegrass and contemporary folk label formed in 1971

#### Albums and EPs

* Boots (album), a 1966 album by Nancy Sinatra
* "Boots" (EP), a 2002 EP by industrial music band KMFDM with a cover of the Nancy Sinatra song
* Boot!, a 2013 album by The Thing
* Boots, a 2002 album by Noe Venable

#### Songs

* "Boots" (The Killers song), a 2010 song by The Killers
* "Boots", a 1928 song composed by Peter Dawson aka "J.P. McCall"
* "Boots", a song by Mighty Gabby
* "Boots", a song by Kesha from her 2017 album Rainbow
* "Boots", a song by Hardy from his 2020 album A Rock
* "Boot" (ブート Būto), a song by Macintosh Plus from Floral Shoppe
* "Das Boot" (song), title theme of the film of the same name
* "The Boots", a song by Gugudan

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Boot (magazine), an American computer magazine now known as Maximum PC
* "Boots" (poem), by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
* "Boots", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
* Bootleg recording, unauthorized audio or video recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
* The Boot (website), a music blog owned by Townsquare Media

## Computing

* Boot (software), a Clojure build automation tool
* /boot/ directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
* Booting, the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when turned on
* Ping-Pong virus, alternatively called "boot"

## Roles or professions

* Boot, a recruit undergoing recruit training in the United States Marine Corps or Navy, or an inexperienced marine or sailor
* Boot or boots, a servant who acts as a shoeshiner, especially in a hotel

## Transportation

* Boot (car), the storage compartment of a car
* Boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn coach, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage
* Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems
* Denver boot, also known as a wheel clamp, which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement
* Boot, or Gaiter (vehicle), a flexible sleeve covering a moving part

## Other uses

* Boot (medical), a protective device worn while an injured foot is healing
* Boot (real estate), any property received by a taxpayer in an IRC 1031 exchange which is not like-kind to the relinquished property
* Boot (torture), a torture device for crushing the human foot
* Boot of beer, a form of beer glassware in the shape of a boot
* Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects
* Cylinder boot, a rubber protector for the bottom end of a scuba cylinder
* Boot, Old English for estover, an English law term
* Boot, the outer shell of a reed pipe in a pipe organ