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booting upstairs

booting upstairs is the present participle and gerund 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 booting upstairs

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

Words near booting upstairs in the dictionary

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

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