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booting out

booting out is the present participle and gerund of boot out.

Meaning of boot out

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, transitive) Emphatic synonym of kick out: to remove, to eject, to expel; to dismiss (from a position, job, etc.).
    • ‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […]
      ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19
    Synonyms:
    kick out
  2. (intransitive) To fall or slide out of a turn due to excessive lean, which causes the athlete's boot to contact and pivot on the surface and the proper surface contact element to lose contact and traction.

Questions about booting out

What is booting out the present participle and gerund of?
Booting out is the present participle and gerund of boot out.

Words near booting out in the dictionary

  1. bootikins
  2. bootilicious
  3. booting
  4. booting and rallying
  5. booting one
  6. booting out
  7. booting up
  8. booting upstairs
  9. bootings
  10. bootjack
  11. bootjacked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: booting out (page history and authors); boot out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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