Definitions for booting

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booting boot·ing

Spelling: [boo-ting]

IPA: /ˈbu tɪŋ/

Booting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in booting (bginoot).

Definitions for booting

noun

1. the practice of dealing with scofflaws by attaching a boot to the wheel of a car, immobilizing it until its owner reports to the police or pays delinquent fines.
2. a covering of leather, rubber, or the like, for the foot and all or part of the leg.
3. Chiefly British. any shoe or outer foot covering reaching to the ankle.
4. an overshoe, especially one of rubber or other waterproof material.
5. 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.
6. any sheathlike protective covering:
7. a protective covering for the foot and part of the leg of a horse.
8. a protecting cover or apron for the driver's seat of an open vehicle.
9. the receptacle or place into which the top of a convertible car fits when lowered.
10. a cloth covering for this receptacle or place.
11. British. the trunk of an automobile.
12. a rubber covering for the connection between each spark-plug terminal and ignition cable in an automotive ignition system.
13. 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.
14. U.S. Navy, Marines. a recruit.
15. Music. the box that holds the reed in the reed pipe of an organ.
16. a kick.
17. Slang. a dismissal; discharge:
18. Informal. a sensation of pleasure or amusement:
19. Baseball. a fumble of a ball batted on the ground, usually to the infield.
20. Computers. an act or instance of starting up a computer or program.
21. Archaic. something given into the bargain.
22. Obsolete. advantage. remedy; relief; help.

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 booting

boot¹ + -ing¹

Examples for booting

"Chinese labour," yelled a voice, and across the square swept a wildfire of booting and bawling.

In my representatives of the first two groups, but particularly in the Dark Brahma, the amount of booting is variable.

They have a free and careless way of booting everybody out the door and refusing to listen to anybody.

Regardless of when the booting may happen, the swap seems to be imminent.

At last, one day, I saw a big hulking beast of a Dutchman booting the ship's boy.

This correlation indicates, without exactly measuring, heredity in grade of booting.

Joe said afterwards that he had no more idea of booting the ball over than he had of flying.

My own conclusion (1906, p. 72) was: "booting is dominant, but usually imperfectly so."

Only in moments of emotion was Mr. Jackson in the habit of booting the basket.

Depend upon it, there was no time lost in booting and saddling for the townward journey.