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boot in English
- boot⇄adj. bootlike.
- boot⇄boot (1), noun, verb.
- boot⇄boot (2), noun, verb.
- boot⇄boot (3), noun.
booty; spoil; plunder. - boot⇄expr. bet your boots, to depend on it; be sure.
Ex. You may bet your boots that I'll come to the party. - boot⇄expr. die with one's boots on, to die in battle; die fighting for a cause.
Ex. If you keep on slinging your six-shooter around ... , you will ... die with your boots on (Joaquin Miller). - boot⇄expr. have one's heart in one's boots. See under heart.
- boot⇄expr. lick the boots of, to flatter; follow or obey slavishly.
Ex. Those [candidates] who aren't rich are usually party hacks who got a chance to run after years of licking the boots of party leaders (New Yorker). - boot⇄expr. put the boot in, to engage in dangerous play, especially in Rugby.
Ex. He put the boot in once too often and was sidelined for the season. - boot⇄expr. the boot, (Slang.) dismissal.
Ex. There'll be the money to take over the Moat Farm and give that varmint ... the boot (H. Rider Haggard). - boot⇄expr. to boot, in addition; besides.
Ex. He gave me a compass for my knife and a canteen to boot. - boot⇄expr. wipe one's boots on, to treat in an insulting way.
Ex. Though he often wiped his boots on a man, he never showed him the more stinging insolence of condescension (John W. Mackail). - boot⇄noun (Archaic.) profit; use; avail.
- boot⇄noun 1a. a covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, usually of leather or rubber (distinguished from ?shoe).
b. (British.) a high-cut shoe that covers the whole foot, including the ankle.
c. a protective covering for part of the hoo - boot⇄v.i. (Archaic.) to be of use or profit; avail.
Ex. What boots thy wealth? (Robert Southey). - boot⇄v.t. (Obsolete.) to enrich; benefit.
- boot⇄v.t. 1. to put boots on; supply with boots.
Ex. If Washington could have booted his army, the men might never have stayed at Valley Forge.
2. to give a kick to.
Ex. He booted the empty can off the sidewalk.
3. to kick (a footbal