boot

Meaning

Noun

1. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
2. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
3. 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. Oppression, an oppressor.
6. A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
7. 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. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
11. The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
12. (informal) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
13. (slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
14. (slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
15. (slang) A black person.
16. A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
17. A bobbled ball.
18. The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
19. (slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
20. (slang) A tyre.
21. A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

Verb

1. To kick.
2. To put boots on, especially for riding.
3. (colloquial) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
4. To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
5. (informal) To eject; kick out.
6. (informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
7. (slang) To vomit.
8. (slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.

Verb

1. To be beneficial, to help.
2. To matter; to be relevant.
3. To enrich.

Verb

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

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

desert boot

bumper post

feed hopper

feed magazine

feeding funnel

boot cap

safety cover

leader pilot

shoe slipper

surge column

hit hard

axe

🪓

backfire

beat

benefit

boat

⛵

booting

carrier

foot

🦶

footgear

footprint

👣

galosh

golosh

guidance

guide

homing

hood

induct

initialize

jackboot

luggage compartment

moccasin

punt

recoil

remedy

runner

🏃

Pronounced as (IPA)

/buːt/

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.