bootnoun
uk/buːt/us/buːt/boot noun (SHOE)
A1 [ C ] a type of shoe that covers the whole foot and the lower part of the leg:
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- He lent down and struck a match on the sole of his boot.
- I'm going to christen my new walking boots on Saturday.
- There were big clumps of soil on his boots.
- Don't walk all over my clean floor in your mucky boots.
- I've had a lot of wear out of these boots - I've had them for five years.
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Shoes
- ankle boot
- ballet shoe
- Birkenstock
- bootlace
- bootstrap
- brogue
- gumboot
- high heels
- high-top
- hobnail boot
- insole
- instep
- shoehorn
- shoelace
- shoestring
- shoetree
- skyscraper heels
- wellington
- welly
- whitening
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boot noun (CAR)
B1 [ C ] UK US trunk a covered space at the back of a car, for storing things in:
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The exterior of vehicles
- brake light
- bull bar
- bumper sticker
- hood
- Klaxon
- licence plate
- license plate number
- offside
- petrol cap
- radial
- retread
- roof
- roof rack
- side mirror
- splash guard
- stepney
- tyre
- vanity plates
- wing
- wing mirror
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boot noun (END)
the situation in which your job is taken away from you, usually because you have done something wrong or badly:
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Firing staff
- axe
- be out on your ear idiom
- chop
- constructive dismissal
- defrock
- delayering
- furlough
- get the push idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- heave-ho
- invalid sb out
- pension
- relieve
- relieve sb of sth
- removal
- remove
- retire
- sack
- sacking
- termination
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boot noun (KICK)
[ C ] UK informal a kick with the foot:
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- bunch
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- swing
- thump
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boot noun (WHEEL)
[ C ] US also Denver boot, UK wheel clamp a metal device attached to the wheel of an illegally parked car that will only be removed when the owner pays an amount of money
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Punishing & punishments
- bar
- be brought/called to account idiom
- bring
- bum rap
- carrot
- chastise
- clobber
- crucify
- heads will roll! idiom
- kick
- kick (some) ass idiom
- non-custodial
- parking ticket
- penal
- skin sb alive idiom
- string
- strip
- swing
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
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Idiom(s)
bootverb
uk/buːt/us/buːt/boot verb (KICK)
[ T usually + adv/prep ] informal to kick someone or something hard with the foot:
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- bunch
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- swing
- thump
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boot verb (COMPUTER)
[ I or T ] also boot up When a computer boots (up), it becomes ready for use by getting the necessary information into its memory, and when you boot (up) a computer, you cause it to do this.
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Computer concepts
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- atomicity
- augmented reality
- back end
- clone
- cloud
- corruption
- default to sth
- electronic
- gigabyte
- GUI
- multimedia
- reboot
- template
- tuple
- virtual
- virtually
- web hosting
- what you see is what you get idiom
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