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booted upstairs

booted upstairs is the simple past and past participle of boot upstairs.

Meaning of boot 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

Questions about booted upstairs

What is booted upstairs the simple past and past participle of?
Booted upstairs is the simple past and past participle of boot upstairs.

Words near booted upstairs in the dictionary

  1. booted eagle
  2. booted eagles
  3. booted one
  4. booted out
  5. booted up
  6. booted upstairs
  7. booted warbler
  8. booted warblers
  9. bootee
  10. booteed
  11. bootees

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