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boot1
noun
1 an outer covering, made of leather or rubber, etc, for the foot and lower part of the leg.
2 Brit a compartment for luggage in a car, usually at the back. N Am equivalent trunk.
3 colloq a hard kick.
4 (the boot) colloq dismissal from a job; the sack.
5 hist an instrument of torture used on the leg and foot.
verb (booted , booting )
1 to kick.
2
a (usu boot someone or something out) to throw them or it out, or remove them or it by force;
b (usu boot someone out) to dismiss them from their job or home, etc.
3 (often boot something up) comput to start or restart (a computer) by loading the programs which control its basic functions; to bootstrap it.
4 to put boots on someone.
[14c: from French bote ]
bootable adjective , comput able to be booted ( verb 3).
boots and all Aust & NZ without reservation; all-out.
put the boot in colloq
1 to kick viciously.
2 to be brutally unkind or vicious.
the boot is on the other foot or leg colloq the situation is now the reverse of what it was before, especially as regards advantage or responsibility, etc.
noun
1 an outer covering, made of leather or rubber, etc, for the foot and lower part of the leg.
2 Brit a compartment for luggage in a car, usually at the back. N Am equivalent trunk.
3 colloq a hard kick.
4 (the boot) colloq dismissal from a job; the sack.
5 hist an instrument of torture used on the leg and foot.
verb (booted , booting )
1 to kick.
2
a (usu boot someone or something out) to throw them or it out, or remove them or it by force;
b (usu boot someone out) to dismiss them from their job or home, etc.
3 (often boot something up) comput to start or restart (a computer) by loading the programs which control its basic functions; to bootstrap it.
4 to put boots on someone.
[14c: from French bote ]
bootable adjective , comput able to be booted ( verb 3).
boots and all Aust & NZ without reservation; all-out.
put the boot in colloq
1 to kick viciously.
2 to be brutally unkind or vicious.
the boot is on the other foot or leg colloq the situation is now the reverse of what it was before, especially as regards advantage or responsibility, etc.
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