Boot Definition

bo͝ot
booted, boots
noun
boots
A durable covering for the foot and part or much of the leg, usually made of leather, fabric, plastic, or rubber.
American Heritage
Remedy; profit; benefit.
Webster's New World
A protective covering, especially a sheath to enclose the base of a floor-mounted gear shift lever in a car or truck.
American Heritage
An automobile trunk.
American Heritage
A kick.
American Heritage
verb
booted, boots
To put boots on.
American Heritage
To be of help or advantage; avail.
American Heritage
To kick.
Booted the ball into the goal.
American Heritage
To discharge unceremoniously.
American Heritage
To start (a computer) by loading an operating system from a disk.
American Heritage
idiom
to boot
  • In addition; besides:

    The new cruise ship was not only the biggest in the world, but the fastest to boot.

American Heritage
to boot
  • besides; in addition
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Boot

Noun

Singular:
boot
Plural:
boots

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Boot

Origin of Boot

  • 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”), Old French bot (“fat, short, blunt”), probably from Old Norse buttr (“short, blunt”), from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhud-, *bhAud-, *bheid- (“to strike, push, shock”). Compare Norwegian butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), Old English buttuc (“end”). More at buttock.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“atonement, improvement”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰÀd- (“good”). Akin to Old Norse bót (“bettering, remedy”) (Danish bod), Gothic (bota), German Buße.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English boten to be of help from Old English bōtian from bōt help bhad- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From bootleg (“to make or sell illegally”), by shortening

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English bote from Old French

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Shortening of bootstrap.

    From Wiktionary

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