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What does boot mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word boot? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
    1. (sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
  2. A blow with the foot; a kick.
  3. (construction) 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.
  4. A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
  5. (US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
  6. A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup. A deicing boot.
  7. (obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
  8. (archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
  9. (US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
  10. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
  11. (informal) The act or process of removing or firing someone.
  12. (Britain, slang) unattractive person, ugly woman
  13. (firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
  14. (baseball) A bobbled ball.
  15. (botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
Verb
  1. To kick.
  2. To put boots on, especially for riding.
  3. To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
  4. (informal) To forcibly eject.
  5. (computing) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
  6. (slang) To vomit.
Noun
  1. (dated) remedy, amends
  2. (uncountable) profit, plunder
  3. (obsolete) 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
  4. (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
Verb
  1. (transitive, obsolete) To profit, avail, benefit.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.
Noun
  1. (computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
Verb
  1. (computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
Noun
  1. A bootleg recording.
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