Definitions for Boots

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IPA: /buts/

Boots is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in Boots (boost).

Definitions for Boots

noun

1. a servant, as at a hotel, who blacks or polishes shoes and boots.
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.
23. 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 Boots

1615-25; plural of boot¹; see -s³

Examples for Boots

“The only disadvantage is contrary to President Obama, we definitely have ‘boots on the ground,’” the former Army officer said.

Ben had drawn off his boots, and was firing them one after the other at the door.

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.

There he took the boots—they were terribly stained, he saw—and drew them on.

Evan, the last boy had his boots blacked, and a fresh paper collar on!

Sometimes there would be caricatures in which his body was swallowed up by his boots.

For the next hour, she verbally humiliated him while he licked her boots and feet until they were completely cleaned.

If anything demonstrates the power of comedy to make dictators quake in their boots, it is the events of the past few days.

Ah, the truthful glass betrayed the weak point in her armor—the boots.

In an English hotel, would the chef sit down to talk with boots?