boot

Meaning

Noun

1. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
2. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
3. (uncountable) A blow with the foot; a kick.
4. 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.
5. (figuratively, with-definite-article) Oppression, an oppressor.
6. A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
7. (US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
8. A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
9. (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
10. (archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
11. (Australia, British, New-Zealand, South-Africa) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
12. (informal, with-definite-article) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
13. (British, slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
14. (US, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
15. (US, plural, usually) A soldier, especially a footsoldier.
16. (ethnic, slang, slur) A black person.
17. A hard or rigid case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun.
18. A bobbled ball.
19. The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
20. (slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
21. (slang) A tyre.
22. (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

Verb

1. (transitive) To kick.
2. To put boots on, especially for riding.
3. (Canada, US, colloquial, usually) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
4. (informal) To eject; kick out.
5. (informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
6. (slang) To vomit.
7. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.

Verb

1. (archaic, impersonal, intransitive, transitive) To be beneficial, to help.
2. (archaic, impersonal, intransitive) To matter; to be relevant.
3. (archaic, rare, transitive) To enrich.

Verb

To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

Opposite of

shut down, stop, turn off

Synonyms

shoe

👞

trunk

kick

trunk

kicking

reboot

top-boot

buskin

footwear

slipper

slippers

rush

flush

the boot

iron boot

bring up

thrill

top boot

advantage

bang

push

charge

boots

in addition

iron heel

bootstrap

sac

sack

shoes

shot

start

steering

thrash

good

👍

track

turn out

vectoring

car boot

combat boot

gumboot

half boot

kick against

kick back

roof rack

storage area

bootload

potette

goloshe

luggage rack/carrier

automobile trunk

Translations

botte

👢

Stiefel

👢

bota

👢

stivale

👢

laars

👢

calceus

bota

👢

bota

👢

chaussure

👞

Schuh

👞

schoen

👞

scarpa

👞

calçado

Kofferraum

👢

Pronounced as (IPA)

/buːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: boote

Cognate with Old Norse: butt

Cognate with Low German: butt

Cognate with Old English: bytt

Inherited from Old English: bōt

Cognate with Old Norse: bót

Cognate with Danish: bod

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰

Cognate with German: Buße

In summary

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.