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boot
noun- dismissal from employment or other engagement UK, 1881
The image of being kicked away. - So we both gets the boot from this job[.] — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 38, 1964
- WAYNE[:] Aw... but I got a new bird now. WAYNETTA[:] Well giver her the boot! — Harry Enfield, Harry Enfield and His Humorous Chums, p. 15, 1997
- a black person US, 1954
- My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even. — Colin McInnes, City of Spades, 1957
- — Robert George Reisner, The Jazz Titans, p. 151, 1960
- What’s wrong with a white broad helping two spades? She’s a “boot.” She looks like what she is. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 207, 1969
- One boot got the tom-tom and the other grabbed a flute. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 187, 1969
- Yet I hadn’t seen a boot or a spic. — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 12, 1971
- a newly enlisted or drafted recruit in the armed services, especially the marines US, 1911
- For a good many years, as long as many an older salt can remember, the word “boot” has been synonymous with the younger and less experienced men of the Navy and Marine Corps. — Leatherneck, p. 7, September 1946
- A former Marine “boot” told the courtmartial of S/Sgt. Matthew McKeon that the drill instructor warned his platoon non-winners would drown while sharks would devour the rest before they plunged into the waters of Ribbon Creek. — San Francisco News, p. 1, 21 July 1956
- I’ve never seen a more disgusting, disreputable bunch of boots in my life. — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 141, 1974
- At 21, Laing, a quiet, dark, and handsome man from Waterloo, Iowa, just a few years out of undergraduate school in engineering at Dubuque’s Catholic Loras University, was just a “boot ensign.” — Robert K. Wilcox, Scream of Eagles, p. 50, 1990
- in the US Army, a second lieutenant US
- — True, p. 4, July 1966
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 5, 1968
- I’m a boot lieutenant and that’s the lowest thing in the Marine Corps. — Mark Barker, Nam, p. 40, 1981
- amusement or pleasure US, 1979
- Down Atherton way, the peasants are getting a big boot out of the guy who’s having a home built on Valparaiso Ave. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 25, 2 January 1952
- He got such a boot out of being a big-dog fight manager, he never found out why I coudln’t lose weight except in a steam bath. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 261, 1955
- You’ll Get a Real Boot out of this Beauty [Advertisement] — San Francisco Examiner, pp. I–13, 30 March 1956
- I told her I packed the pipe by mistake and she said she wanted to give it to you anyway since you seemed to get a boot out of it[.] — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 112, 1970
- a bootleg product US
- He’d copy hits, big ones, Madonna, Elton John, the Spice Girls, and sell the boots down in South America at a discount. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 205, 1999
- while injecting a drug intravenously, the drawing of blood into the syringe to mix with the drug US
- I was just finishing up, the needle still in the vein for one last boot down the old line[.] — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 47, 1987
- any central nervous system depressant US
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 41, 1992
- a bag of heroin UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 30, 1996
- a cigarette US
- — John Fahs, Cigarette Confidential, p. 301, 1996
- a woman, especially an unattractive woman UK
- — Tom Hibbert, Rockspeak!, p. 28, 1983
- Youse fucin boots say anthing aboot this n yis ur deid! — Irvine Welsh, The State of the Party (Disco Biscuits), p. 53, 1995
- an error, especially in sports US, 1913
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 8, 1945
- a cash incentive designed to improve a business deal US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 380, 1997
- a linear amplifier for a citizens’ band radio US
- — Lawrence Teeman, Consumer Guide Good Buddy’s CB Dictionary, p. 32, 1976
- a condom US
- — John D. Bell et al., Loosely Speaking, p. 3, 1966
- in television and film making, a tripod cover US
- — Ira Konigsberg, The Complete Film Dictionary, p. 33, 1987
▶ in the boot
drunk US- Roger got a couple in the boot one night at my house (Roger does not do that anymore, since he made partner) and told me candidly what Grace thought of me[.] — George Higgins, Kennedy for the Defense, p. 62, 1980
▶ stick the boot in; put the boot in
to kick a prostrate foe; hence, figurative usage “to kick someone when they’re down”; (political and commercial) to take an unnecessary advantage, to betray someone UK, 1916
In widespread usage since mid-C20; the figurative sense has been known from the mid-1960s.- And, worst of all, hadn’t heard from Mark again. Mum had definitely put the boot in for me there. — Mary Hooper, (megan)2, pp. 146–147, 1999
▶ the boot is on the other foot; the boot is on the other leg
the balance of power or responsibility has shifted to the opposing party UK, 1866
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