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Definition: Meaning of, boot in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / buːt /

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boot boots
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  1. a type of shoe that covers your whole foot and the lower part of your leg [↪  Wellington]
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  2. British English an enclosed space at the back of a car, used for carrying bags etc [=  trunk American English]
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  3. the boot informal when someone is forced to leave their job [↪  dismiss] [=  the sack]
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  4. to boot in addition to everything else you have mentioned
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  5. put the boot in British English informal to criticize or be cruel to someone who is already in a bad situation
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  6. put the boot in British English informal to attack someone by kicking them repeatedly, especially when they are on the ground
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  7. the boot is on the other foot British English used to say someone who has caused problems for other people in the past is now in a situation in which people are causing problems for them
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  8. American English a metal object that the police attach to one of the wheels of an illegally parked car so that it cannot be moved [=  wheel clamp British English]
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
boot booted booted
Present Participle Third Person Singular
booting boots
  1. also boot up [intransitive and transitive] to start the program that makes a computer ready to be used [↪  load]
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  2. [transitive] informal to kick someone or something hard
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  3. [transitive] American English to stop someone from moving their illegally parked vehicle by fixing a piece of equipment to one of the wheels [=  clamp British English]
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boot used in phrases

  • Chelsea boot (noun)
    1. a tight-fitting, ankle-high boot
  • Denver boot (noun)
    1. e.g. when illegally parked device locked into place over the wheel of a road vehicle, immobilizing it
  • Hessian boot (noun)
    1. 19th century a man's high tasseled boot
  • Moon Boot (noun)
    1. a thick warm boot made of cloth or plastic, worn in snow and cold weather
  • Wellington boot (noun)
    1. British English a high boot made of rubber
    2. 19th century a man's high tasseled boot
  • boot camp (noun)
    1. a training camp for people who have just joined the US Army, Navy, or Marine Corps
  • boot disk (noun)
    1. computing disk on which operating system startup files are stored
  • boot sale (noun)
    1. a CAR BOOT SALE
  • boot-shaped (adjective)
    1. shaped like a boot
  • car boot sale (noun)
    1. British English an outdoor sale where people sell things from the back of their cars
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boot used in phrasal verbs

  • boot out (phrasal verb)
    1. to make someone leave a place, their job, or something that they are involved in
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