Definitions for bootstrap

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bootstrap boot·strap

Spelling: [boot-strap]

IPA: /ˈbutˌstræp/

Bootstrap is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 386 anagrams from letters in bootstrap (abooprstt).

Definitions for bootstrap

noun

1. a loop of leather or cloth sewn at the top rear, or sometimes on each side, of a boot to facilitate pulling it on.
2. a means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something:

Idioms

1. pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, to help oneself without the aid of others; use one's resources:

adjective

1. relying entirely on one's efforts and resources:
2. self-generating or self-sustaining:

verb (used with object)

1. Computers. boot1 (defs 24, 28).
2. to help (oneself) without the aid of others:

Origin of bootstrap

First recorded in 1890-95; boot¹ + strap

Examples for bootstrap

Then they went out into the neon-lighted business street of bootstrap.

He'd gone by plane with the infinitely precise apparatus to bootstrap, to deliver and install it in the Platform.

It started off swiftly across the field, swerving to the roadway that led to the highway out of bootstrap to the Shed.

In the desert near bootstrap there was a gigantic construction shed.

Once they met a convoy of empty vehicles on the way back to bootstrap.

They arrived in bootstrap some forty-six hours after the crashing of their ship.

It is hardly likely that he was—ah—carrying the stuff with him last night, in bootstrap.

Unlike silly examples involving broccoli and cell phones, that so-called “bootstrap” argument is sound.

The skeleton compiler acts as a bootstrap for introducing more sophisticated facilities.

They were the pilot and co-pilot, respectively, of the fateful plane that had brought him to bootstrap.