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boot upstairs

boot upstairs verb: synonym of kick upstairs.

Verb

boot upstairs (third-person singular simple present boots upstairs, present participle booting upstairs, simple past and past participle booted upstairs)

  1. Synonym of kick upstairs.
    • Faced with slowing foreign investment and a revenue squeeze, Pranab Mukherjee, until recently the finance minister, bizarrely attacked foreign investors, such as Vodafone, and retrospectively tried to rewrite tax rules. That spread uncertainty. Fortunately in July he was booted upstairs to become...2012 September 29, “India: Aim Higher”, in The Economist, number Sep 29th 2012, Special Report, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023
    Synonyms:
    kick upstairs

Synonyms of boot upstairs

Forms of boot upstairs

third-person singular presentboots upstairs
present participlebooting upstairs
past participlebooted upstairs
pastbooted upstairs

Questions about boot upstairs

What does boot upstairs mean?
Boot upstairs means synonym of kick upstairs.
What part of speech is boot upstairs?
Boot upstairs is a verb.
What is the past tense of boot upstairs?
The past tense of boot upstairs is booted upstairs.

Words near boot upstairs in the dictionary

  1. boot time
  2. boot times
  3. boot tree
  4. boot trees
  5. boot up
  6. boot upstairs
  7. boot verb
  8. boot verbs
  9. boot-black
  10. boot-blacks
  11. boot-boy

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