boot

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to cause to load an operating system and start the initial processes

   The bios is the most important part when booting your computer.

2. 2
   verb

   to kick something

   I booted the ball around the soccer field.

3. 3
   noun

   Oppression, an oppressor.

   Dr. Jayakar was not only one of them but was at places the prime mover in the historic decisions taken by a nation struggling to get free of the British boot.

4. 4
   noun

   A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.

   The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the "warm hose", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.

5. 5
   noun

   The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.

   He heaved the bag and its contents over the lip of the boot and on to the flagstones. When it was out, no longer in that boot but on the ground, and the bag was still intact, he knew the worst was over.

6. 6
   noun

   The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).

   He was useless so he got the boot.

7. 7
   noun

   An unattractive person, ugly woman.

   old boot

8. 8
   noun

   A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.

   Did you even go to OCS, you complete and utter boot!?

Etymology

From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.