boot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͞ot
ipa: /buːt/
ipa: /bʏːt/
ipa: /but/
ipa: /bʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: boots
form: booting
form: booted
form: booted
Etymology: From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.
Senses: examples: text: I booted the ball toward my teammate.
text: You nearly booted me in the face!
text: The one certainty is that the redrafting will delay by several months the general election that was supposed to be held at the end of this year. Mr Prayuth has implied that elections cannot now be held until after King Vajiralongkorn's coronation, which itself cannot take place until after his father's elaborate cremation, scheduled for October. All this boots the long-promised polls well into 2018.
ref: 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
glosses: To kick.
examples: text: Coated and booted for it.
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:
glosses: To put boots on, especially for riding.
examples: text: The storm is coming fast! Boot it!
text: We had to boot it all the way there to get to our flight on time.
glosses: To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
raw_tags: with it
examples: text: We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible.
text: The senator was booted from the committee for unethical behavior.
glosses: To eject; kick out.
examples: text: As an IRC member with operator status, Swallow was able to manage who was allowed to remain in chat sessions and who got booted off the channel.
ref: 2002, Dan Verton, The Hacker Diaries, page 67:
text: Even flagrant violators of the TOS are not booted.
ref: 2003, John C. Dvorak, Chris Pirillo, Online!, page 173:
text: In Electroserver, the kick command disconnects a user totally from the server and gives him a message about why he was booted.
ref: 2002, Jobe Makar, Macromedia Flash Mx Game Design Demystified, page 544:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
examples: text: Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
glosses: To vomit.
examples: text: C4 run man through the alley
Get a man down with the swammy
Get a man down with the whammy
Boot couple niggas on the road
No face no case with the bally (booting)
ref: 2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics):
glosses: To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
Synonyms: sense: kick
word: hoof
sense: kick
word: kick
sense: disconnect from online conversation
word: kick
Derived terms: boot up the backside
boot up the bum
booting
boot one
boot out