Definition of Boot

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Definition of Boot

Boot

Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.

Profit; gain; advantage; use.

To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?

To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.

A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.

A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.

To put boots on, esp. for riding.

To punish by kicking with a booted foot.

To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.

Booty; spoil.

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Boot Quotations

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
R. Lee Ermey

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
Barney Frank

Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.
Will Ferrell

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.
Shia LaBeouf

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
Frank Carson

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
Ani DiFranco

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
A. J. Liebling

Boot Translations

boot in Dutch is laars
boot in Finnish is saapas
boot in German is Stiefel, Start, booten
boot in Italian is portabagagli, stivale
boot in Portuguese is bota, carregador
boot in Spanish is iniciar, bota

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