boot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: boots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: booting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: booted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: booted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
pos: noun
gloss: A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
pos: noun
gloss: A blow with the foot; a kick.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Oppression, an oppressor.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
with-definite-article
examples: Dr. Jayakar was not only one of them but was at places the prime mover in the historic decisions taken by a nation struggling to get free of the British boot.
Never in its long history, and one rich with brutal inequities too, had Paris known the disgrace of seeing one section of its community prosper under the boot of an invader
Chronic unrest in Ireland, long under the British boot, was about to culminate in a popular rising.
gloss: A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
pos: noun
examples: The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the "warm hose", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.
gloss: A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
pos: noun
gloss: A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
examples: He heaved the bag and its contents over the lip of the boot and on to the flagstones. When it was out, no longer in that boot but on the ground, and the bag was still intact, he knew the worst was over.
The body is constructed of welded steel panels, with the bonnet, doors and boot lid in aluminium on steel frames.
Peers leant against the outside of the car a lit up her filter tip and watched as Bauer and Putin placed their compact suitcases in the boot of the BMW and slammed the boot lid down.
gloss: The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
pos: noun
tags: informal
with-definite-article
examples: He was useless so he got the boot.
gloss: An unattractive person, ugly woman.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: old boot
gloss: A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Did you even go to OCS, you complete and utter boot!?
gloss: A soldier, especially a footsoldier.
pos: noun
tags: US
plural
usually
examples: We do not anticipate there will be US boots on the ground to help quell the violence.
gloss: A black person.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
slang
slur
examples: My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even.
gloss: A hard or rigid case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun.
pos: noun
examples: They drew in their horses and dismounted. The others riding ahead were already out of sight in the darkness. Beyond them shone the lights of Bou Saada. Tarzan removed his rifle from its boot and loosened his revolver in its holster.
gloss: A bobbled ball.
pos: noun
gloss: The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
pos: noun
gloss: A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Because of overcrowding, many a CB enthusiast (called an "apple") is strapping an illegal linear amplifier ("boots") on to his transceiver ("ears") […]
gloss: A tyre.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To kick.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I booted the ball toward my teammate.
You nearly booted me in the face!
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.
gloss: To put boots on, especially for riding.
pos: verb
examples: Coated and booted for it.
gloss: To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
usually
examples: The storm is coming fast! Boot it!
We had to boot it all the way there to get to our flight on time.
gloss: To eject; kick out.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible.
The senator was booted from the committee for unethical behavior.
gloss: To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: 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.
Even flagrant violators of the TOS are not booted.
In Electroserver, the kick command disconnects a user totally from the server and gives him a message about why he was booted.
gloss: To vomit.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.
gloss: To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
examples: 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)
Synonyms: buskin
mukluk
Derived words: aguaro boot
a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on
ankle boot
army boot
Australian boot
ballet boot
Beatle boot
boot and rally
bootblack
boot board
boot-boy
bootboy
boot boy
boot camp
boot catcher
boot closer
boot crimp
boot-cut
boot cut
boot cuts
bootee
boot fair
bootful
boot-grease
bootheel
Boot Hill
boothook
boothose
bootikin
bootjack
boot jack
boot knife
bootlace
bootlick
bootlicker
bootlid
bootlike
bootlip
boot lip
bootload
bootmaker
bootmaking
boot manager
boot money
bootneck
boot pants
bootprint
boot room
boot sale
boots and all
bootscraper
bootsole
boots on the ground
bootspace
bootstep
boot storm
bootstrap
bootstring
bootstripe
boot-studder
boottopping
boot-topping
boot-tree
boot tree
boottree
boot upstairs
boot verb
bootwear
bossyboots
bovver boots
bunny boot
car boot
Chelsea boot
chewie on ya boot
chukka boot
cold boot attack
combat boot
couldn't pour water out of a boot
couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel
cowboy boot
cowgirl boot
Denver boot
aka wheel clamp
desert boot
dual-boot
engineer boot
engineering boot
Eskimo boot
fieldboot
field boot
fill one's boots
fill someone's boots
football boot
froot
full as a boot
get the boot
give someone the boot
give the boot
go-go boot
gravity boots
gum boot
gumboot
half-boot
hang up one's boots
hang up the boots
have one's heart in one's boots
Hessian boot
hiking boot
hip boot
hobnail boot
horse boot
in someone's boots
jack boot
jack-boot
jackboot
Jesus boot
Jesus boots
jump boot
jungle boot
kicking boots
kinky boot
knee high boot
knock boots
lick someone's boots
lift oneself up by one's boot-tags
lift oneself up by one's own boot-tags
like old boots
Malay boot
monkey boot
moon boot
motorcycle boot
mud on one's boots
mukluk boot
napoleon boot
Napoleon boot
order of the boot
Oregon boot
overboot
pac boot
paratrooper boot
pixie boot
platform boot
pubic boot
put the boot in
quake in one's boots
rainboot
riding boot
rigger boot
roller boot
roping boot
rugby boot
Russian boot
safety boot
seaboot
sea-boot
seven-league boot
seven-league boots
shake in one's boots
shoot the boots
ski boot
sly-boot
sly-boots
smarty boots
smarty-boots
snowboard boot
snowboot
Spanish boot
steel-toe boot
stoga boot
storm boot
strap on the boots
tabi boot
tanker boot
the boot is on the other foot
thigh boot
thigh-high boot
too big for one's boots
topboot
tough as old boots
trench boot
ugg boot
ug boot
unboot
walking boot
wellington boot
Wellington boot
Wellington boots
winter boot
wobbly boots
workboot
work boot
yeti boot
bootless
boot up the backside
boot up the bum
booting
boot one
boot out
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: stewel
lang: Southern Altai
word: башмак
roman: bašmak
lang: Southern Altai
word: ӧдӱк
roman: ödük
lang: Western Apache
word: kee hadago ndeezí
lang: Arabic
word: جَزْمَة
roman: jazma
lang: Arabic
word: بسطار
roman: busṭār
lang: Arabic
word: بوت
roman: bōt
lang: Arabic
word: بوت
roman: bōt, būt
lang: Aragonese
word: bota
lang: Armenian
word: երկարաճիտ կոշիկ
roman: erkaračit košik
lang: Armenian
word: ճտքակոշիկ
roman: čtkʻakošik
lang: Armenian
word: սապոգ
roman: sapog
lang: Asturian
word: bota
lang: Azerbaijani
word: çəkmə
lang: Bashkir
word: итек
roman: itek
lang: Belarusian
word: чараві́к
roman: čaravík
lang: Belarusian
word: бот
roman: bot
lang: Belarusian
word: боцік
roman: bócik
lang: Breton
word: heuz
lang: Bulgarian
word: бо́туш
roman: bótuš
lang: Burmese
word: ဘွတ်ဖိနပ်
roman: bhwathpi.nap
lang: Catalan
word: bota
lang: Chichewa
word: jombo
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 靴
roman: hoe¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 靴子
roman: xuēzi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 長靴 /长靴
roman: chángxuē
lang: Chuvash
word: атӑ
roman: at̬ă
lang: Cornish
word: botas
lang: Cornish
word: botasen
lang: Czech
word: bota
lang: Danish
word: støvle
lang: Dutch
word: laars
lang: Dutch
word: bot
lang: Dutch
word: hoge schoen
lang: Esperanto
word: boto
lang: Estonian
word: saabas
lang: Faroese
word: stivli
lang: Faroese
word: stilvi
lang: Finnish
word: saapas
lang: Finnish
word: kenkä
lang: French
word: botte
lang: French
word: bottine
lang: Galician
word: bota
lang: Georgian
word: წაღა
roman: c̣aɣa
lang: Georgian
word: ჩექმა
roman: čekma
lang: German
word: Stiefel
lang: Greek
word: μπότα
roman: bóta
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἁρπίς
roman: harpís
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κρηπίς
roman: krēpís
lang: Greenlandic
word: kamik
lang: Haitian Creole
word: bòt
lang: Hebrew
word: מַגָּף
roman: magáf
lang: Hindi
word: बूट
roman: būṭ
lang: Hungarian
word: csizma
lang: Hungarian
word: bakancs
lang: Icelandic
word: stígvél
lang: Ido
word: boto
lang: Indonesian
word: bot
lang: Ingrian
word: saapas
lang: Interlingua
word: botta
lang: Irish
word: bróg
lang: Irish
word: buatais
lang: Italian
word: stivale
lang: Italian
word: scarpone
lang: Japanese
word: ブーツ
roman: būtsu
lang: Japanese
word: ブート
roman: būto
lang: Japanese
word: 長靴
roman: nagagutsu
lang: Khmer
word: ស្បែកជើង
roman: sbaek cəəng
lang: Khmer
word: ស្បែកជើងកវែង
roman: sbaek cəəng kɑɑ vɛɛng
lang: Korean
word: 장화
roman: janghwa
lang: Korean
word: 목화
roman: mokhwa
lang: Central Kurdish
word: چەکمە
roman: çekme
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: cezme
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: potîn
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жүктөө
roman: jüktöö
lang: Latin
word: pero
lang: Latin
word: cothurnus
lang: Latin
word: caliga
lang: Latvian
word: zābaks
lang: Lithuanian
word: batas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Stiwwel
lang: Macedonian
word: чизма
roman: čizma
lang: Malay
word: kasut but
lang: Maltese
word: buzza
lang: Manchu
word: ᡤᡡᠯᡥᠠ
roman: gūlha
lang: Māori
word: pūtu
lang: Mongolian
word: гутал
roman: gutal
lang: Navajo
word: ké deigo nineezí
lang: Nogai
word: этик
roman: étik
lang: Norman
word: botte
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: støvel
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: støvel
lang: Occitan
word: botèl
lang: Old East Slavic
word: плесница
roman: plesnica
lang: Old East Slavic
word: сапогъ
roman: sapogŭ
lang: Pashto
word: موزه
roman: moza
lang: Iranian Persian
word: پوتین
roman: putin
lang: Iranian Persian
word: بوت
roman: but
lang: Iranian Persian
word: چَکْمِه
roman: čakme
lang: Iranian Persian
word: موزِه
roman: muze
lang: Iranian Persian
word: چِزْمِه
roman: čezme
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Steewel
lang: Polish
word: but
lang: Portuguese
word: bota
lang: Romanian
word: cizmă
lang: Romansh
word: stival
lang: Romansh
word: stivagl
lang: Romansh
word: stivel
lang: Russian
word: бу́тса
roman: ru
lang: Russian
word: боти́нок
roman: botínok
lang: Russian
word: башма́к
roman: bašmák
lang: Russian
word: сапо́г
roman: sapóg
lang: Russian
word: бу́тсы
roman: bútsy
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: bòtann
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: чи̏зма
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: čȉzma
lang: Sicilian
word: stivala
lang: Slovak
word: čižma
lang: Slovene
word: škorenj
lang: Spanish
word: bota
lang: Sudovian
word: skarne
lang: Swahili
word: buti
lang: Swedish
word: stövel
lang: Swedish
word: känga
lang: Tagalog
word: bota
lang: Tajik
word: ботинка
roman: botinka
lang: Tajik
word: мӯза
roman: müza
lang: Taos
word: bútoną
lang: Telugu
word: బూటు
roman: būṭu
lang: Thai
word: รองเท้า
roman: rɔɔng-táao
lang: Turkish
word: çizme
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چیزمه
roman: çizme
lang: Turkmen
word: ädik
lang: Turkmen
word: botinka
lang: Ukrainian
word: чо́біт
roman: čóbit
lang: Ukrainian
word: череви́к
roman: čerevýk
lang: Urdu
word: بُوٹ
roman: būṭ
lang: Uzbek
word: botinka
lang: Uzbek
word: etik
lang: Vietnamese
word: giày ống
lang: Vietnamese
word: ủng
lang: Volapük
word: but
lang: Welsh
word: esgid
lang: Welsh
word: botas
lang: Welsh
word: botasen
lang: Woiwurrung
word: o'look
lang: Yaghnobi
word: мӯза
roman: müza
lang: Yiddish
word: שטיוול
roman: shtivl
lang: Dutch
word: eruitgooien
lang: Dutch
word: buitengooien
lang: Dutch
word: eruittrappen
lang: Finnish
word: heittää ulos
lang: Finnish
word: bannata
lang: French
word: déconnecter