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noun, plural boots.British.a servant, as at a hotel, who blacks or polishes shoes and boots. Origin of bootsFirst recorded in 1615–25; plural of boot1; see -s3 Words nearby bootsbootlick, bootlicker, bootloader, boot money, boot out, boots, boots and all, boots and saddles, bootstrap, bootstrap memory, boottopping Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bootsIf anything demonstrates the power of comedy to make dictators quake in their boots, it is the events of the past few days. The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror|David Keyes|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST Sometimes there would be caricatures in which his body was swallowed up by his boots. Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor|S. C. Gwynne|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST For the next hour, she verbally humiliated him while he licked her boots and feet until they were completely cleaned. Whip It: Secrets of a Dominatrix|Justin Jones|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST He crumpled to the ground under a flurry of fists and boots, and as he recalls, no one around him tried to stop the attack. As 30-Year Anniversary of Mass Killings in India Arrives, Sikhs Find Safety in USA|Simran Jeet Singh|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“The only disadvantage is contrary to President Obama, we definitely have ‘boots on the ground,’” the former Army officer said. Air Force Pilots Say They're Flying Blind Against ISIS|Dave Majumdar|October 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST The Englander carries his boots on the top of his carriageI have seen them in London. The Garden of Swords|Max Pemberton Across the street he saw a window with a display of camping equipment, portable stoves, boots, rifles. It Could Be Anything|John Keith Laumer Otherwise, if he had to change his boots during the daytime he put on another pair. The Eldest Son|Archibald Marshall It was wiser to disguise himself as a humble country boy and gall his feet by carrying all his gold in his boots. English Travellers of the Renaissance|Clare Howard Half of them had not even their boots on, but desperate grunts and scuffles sounded inside the dark sheds. Back o' the Moon|Oliver Onions
British Dictionary definitions for boots
noun plural bootsBritish (formerly) a shoeblack who cleans the guests' shoes in a hotel Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to bootsfootwear, knock, shove, eject, expel, bounce, evict, reset, reboot, oxford, brogan, galoshes, waters, waders, cut, fire, dismiss, terminate, chuck, sack |