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.

Concepts

boot

shoe

trunk

kick

kicking

top-boot

reboot

buskin

slipper

in addition

bring up

iron boot

iron heel

the boot

bang

charge

flush

rush

thrill

advantage

push

bootstrap

slippers

footwear

top boot

boots

boat

bootload

start

galosh

gumboot

golosh

goloshe

luggage rack/carrier

jackboot

benefit

sac

good

sack

axe

turn out

kick against

booting

boot cap

safety cover

guidance

guide

homing

induct

leader pilot

steering

vectoring

hood

potette

runner

shoe slipper

bumper post

surge column

feed hopper

feed magazine

feeding funnel

car boot

kick back

punt

recoil

backfire

shot

automobile trunk

luggage compartment

storage area

combat boot

desert boot

half boot

beat

hit hard

thrash

initialize

carrier

roof rack

foot

footprint

track

moccasin

remedy

footgear

shoes

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.