Definitions for Boot

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IPA: /but/

Boot is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Boot (boot).

Definitions for Boot

noun

1. a covering of leather, rubber, or the like, for the foot and all or part of the leg.
2. Chiefly British. any shoe or outer foot covering reaching to the ankle.
3. an overshoe, especially one of rubber or other waterproof material.
4. an instrument of torture for the leg, consisting of a kind of vise extending from the knee to the ankle, tightened around the leg by means of screws.
5. any sheathlike protective covering:
6. a protective covering for the foot and part of the leg of a horse.
7. a protecting cover or apron for the driver's seat of an open vehicle.
8. the receptacle or place into which the top of a convertible car fits when lowered.
9. a cloth covering for this receptacle or place.
10. British. the trunk of an automobile.
11. a rubber covering for the connection between each spark-plug terminal and ignition cable in an automotive ignition system.
12. Also called Denver boot. a metal device attached to the wheel of a parked car so that it cannot be driven away until a fine is paid or the owner reports to the police: used by police to catch scofflaws.
13. U.S. Navy, Marines. a recruit.
14. Music. the box that holds the reed in the reed pipe of an organ.
15. a kick.
16. Slang. a dismissal; discharge:
17. Informal. a sensation of pleasure or amusement:
18. Baseball. a fumble of a ball batted on the ground, usually to the infield.
19. Computers. an act or instance of starting up a computer or program.
20. Archaic. something given into the bargain.
21. Obsolete. advantage. remedy; relief; help.
22. booty; spoil; plunder.

Idioms

1. bet your boots, to be sure or certain:
2. die with one's boots on, to die while actively engaged in one's work, profession, etc. to die fighting, especially in battle, or in some worthy cause. Also, especially British, die in one's boots.
3. get a boot, Informal. to derive keen enjoyment:
4. to boot, in addition; besides:

verb (used with object)

1. to kick; drive by kicking:
2. Football. to kick.
3. Baseball. to fumble (a ground ball).
4. to put boots on; equip or provide with boots.
5. Computers. to start (a computer) by loading and initializing the operating system (often followed by up). to start (a program) by loading the first few instructions, which will then bring in the rest (often followed by up).
6. Slang. to dismiss; discharge:
7. to attach a Denver boot to:
8. to torture with the boot.

verb (used without object)

1. Computers. to start a computer or program, or be started in this way (often followed by up):

verb (used with or without object)

1. Archaic. to be of profit, advantage, or avail (to):

Origin of Boot

1275-1325; Middle English bote Anglo-French, Old French; of uncertain origin

Examples for Boot

He became as polarizing a figure as the war itself, court jester to Nixon and corporate shill to boot.

So saying, he thrust his boot into the snow, intending to kick it over the girl.

And he was less than a month from his third decade, to boot.

As well try to mend a spider's web when you have put your boot through it.

Season three was the strongest one the series has produced yet, to boot.

I'll trade this chestnut—and he's a fine traveler—with a good price to boot.

But this time he saw only the foot of the woman clad in a man's boot.

"It wasn't anything," said Grant shortly, tugging at a boot.

The rule is that every time a new writer enters the canon an old one has to get the boot.

Acts of violence include death by hanging, rifle butt, boot heel, tank tracks and fireball.