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boot

The English word “boot” has 40 meanings listed here.

  1. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
  2. A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football (historically in the form of boots, now shorter, but still called the same).
  3. A blow with the foot; a kick.
  4. A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
  5. Oppression, an oppressor.
  6. A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
  7. A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
  8. A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
  9. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
  10. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
  11. The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
  12. The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
  13. An unattractive person, ugly woman.
  14. A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
  15. A soldier, especially a footsoldier.
  16. A black person.
  17. A hard or rigid case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun.
  18. A bobbled ball.
  19. The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
  20. A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
  21. A tyre.
  22. A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
  23. To kick.
  24. To put boots on, especially for riding.
  25. To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
  26. To eject; kick out.
  27. To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
  28. To vomit.
  29. To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
  30. Remedy, amends.
  31. Profit, plunder.
  32. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
  33. Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
  34. A medicinal cure or remedy.
  35. To be beneficial, to help.
  36. To matter; to be relevant.
  37. To enrich.
  38. The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
  39. To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
  40. A bootleg recording.
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