Collins English-English Dictionary

boot [buːt]

1. 1. n a strong outer covering for the foot; shoe that extends above the ankle, often to the knee - See also chukka boot top boot Wellington boot surgical boot

2. 2. n an enclosed compartment of a car for holding luggage, etc, usually at the rear trunk

3. 3. n a protective covering over a mechanical device, such as a rubber sheath protecting a coupling joining two shafts

4. 4. n [US and Canadian] a rubber patch used to repair a puncture in a tyre

5. 5. n an instrument of torture used to crush the foot and lower leg

6. 6. n a protective covering for the lower leg of a horse

7. 7. n a kick

   he gave the door a boot

8. 8. n [Brit] [slang] an ugly person (esp in the phrase old boot)

9. 9. n [US] [slang] a navy or marine recruit, esp one in training

10. 10. n short for bootstrap

11. 11. n See boots and all

12. 12. vt. [tr] (esp in football) to kick

13. 13. vt. [tr] to equip with boots

14. 14. vt. [tr] [informal] [often foll by out] to eject forcibly

15. 15. vt. to dismiss from employment

16. 16. vt. Also boot up. to start up the operating system of (a computer) or (of a computer) to begin operating

17. 17. vt. See also boots

18. 18. vt. [Etymology] C14 bote, from Old French, of uncertain origin

boot [buːt]

1. 1. vb [usually impersonal] [archaic] to be of advantage or use to (a person)

   what boots it to complain?

2. 2. n [obsolete] an advantage

3. 3. n [dialect] something given in addition, esp to equalize an exchange

   a ten pound boot to settle the bargain

4. 4. n [Etymology] Old English bot compensation; related to Old Norse bot remedy, Gothic bota, Old High German buoza improvement