boot : Idioms & Phrases

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boot camp

  • noun camp for training military recruits
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Boot catcher

  • the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. Obs. Swift.
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Boot closer

  • one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots.
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Boot crimp

  • a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot.
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Boot hook

  • a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots.
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boot maker

  • noun a maker of boots
    bootmaker.
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boot out

  • verb remove from a position or office
    oust; expel; drum out; throw out; kick out.
    • The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds
  • verb put out or expel from a place
    eject; chuck out; turf out; turn out; exclude.
    • The unruly student was excluded from the game
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boot sale

  • noun an outdoor sale at which people sell things from the trunk of their car
    boot sale.
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boot-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped like a boot
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booted armillaria

  • noun fungus with a brown cap and white gills and a membranous ring halfway up the stalk
    Armillaria caligata.
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Boots and saddles

  • (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill.
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car boot sale

  • noun an outdoor sale at which people sell things from the trunk of their car
    boot sale.
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chukka boot

  • noun a shoe that comes up to the ankle and is laced through two or three pairs of eyelets; often made of suede
    chukka.
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combat boot

  • noun a boot reaching halfway up to the knee
    desert boot; buskin; half boot; combat boot.
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congress boot

  • noun an ankle high shoe with elastic gussets in the sides
    congress shoe; congress gaiter.
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Congress boot ∨ gaiter

  • a high shoe or half-boot, coming above the ankle, and having the sides made in part of some elastic material which stretches to allow the boot to be drawn on and off. U.S.
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cowboy boot

  • noun a boot with a high arch and fancy stitching; worn by American cowboys
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desert boot

  • noun a boot reaching halfway up to the knee
    desert boot; buskin; half boot; combat boot.
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Elevator head, leg, ∧ boot

  • the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator.
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Fore boot

  • a receptacle in the front of a vehicle, for stowing baggage, etc.
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gum boot

  • noun a high boot made of rubber
    gum boot.
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half boot

  • noun a boot reaching halfway up to the knee
    desert boot; buskin; half boot; combat boot.
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half-boot

Half"-boot` noun
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  1. A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.
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hessian boot

  • noun (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot
    Hessian boot; jackboot; hessian; Wellington.
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Hessian boots, ∨ Hessians

  • boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray.
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hip boot

  • noun a very high boot; used especially for fishing
    hip boot.
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iron boot

  • noun an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg
    iron boot; boot; iron heel.
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Jack boots

  • boots reaching above the knee; worn in the 17 century by soldiers; afterwards by fishermen, etc. see jack-booted
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jodhpur boot

  • noun a short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side
    jodhpur shoe; jodhpur.
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riding boot

  • noun a boot without laces that is worn for riding horses; part of a riding habit
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rubber boot

  • noun a high boot made of rubber
    gum boot.
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Ruffle of a boot

  • the top turned down, and scalloped or plaited.
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ski boot

  • noun a stiff boot that is fastened to a ski with a ski binding
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Sly boots

  • . See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.
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the boot

  • noun an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg
    iron boot; boot; iron heel.
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thigh boot

  • noun a very high boot; used especially for fishing
    hip boot.
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To boot

  • adverb in addition, by way of addition; furthermore
    additionally.
    • he serves additionally as the CEO
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  • in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered.
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top boot

  • noun a boot reaching halfway up to the knee
    desert boot; buskin; half boot; combat boot.
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top-boots

Top"-boots noun plural
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  1. High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
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wellington boot

  • noun (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot
    Hessian boot; jackboot; hessian; Wellington.
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