boot

Meanings

Noun

• A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
• A blow with the foot; a kick.
• 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.
• A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
• A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
• A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup. A deicing boot.
• A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
• A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
• A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
• The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
• The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
• An unattractive person, ugly woman (usually as "old boot").
• A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
• A bobbled ball.
• The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
• A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
• A tyre.
• Remedy, amends.
• Profit, plunder.
• That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
• Profit; gain; advantage; use.
• Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
• A medicinal cure or remedy.
• The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
• A bootleg recording.

Verb

• To kick.
• To put boots on, especially for riding.
• To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
• To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
• To eject; kick out.
• To start or restart a computer or other electronic system; to bootstrap.
• To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
• To vomit.
• To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
• To avail, benefit, profit.
• To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.
• To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

Related

Similar words

• buskin, mukluk
• kick
• trunk , dicky
• wheel clamp
• fired,
• hoof, kick

Origin

• From Middle English boote, bote, from Old French bote ("a high, thick shoe"). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot ("club-foot"), bot, from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd-. Compare Old Norse butt ("stump"), Low German butt ("blunt, plump"), Old English bytt ("small piece of land"), buttuc. More at buttock.
• From Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Old English bōt ("help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance"), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō ("atonement, improvement"), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed- ("good"). Akin to Old Norse bót ("bettering, remedy") (Danish bod), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰, German Buße. bote (a borrowing from Middle English).
• From bootleg, by shortening