bootings

Noun

booting (countable and uncountable, plural bootings)

1. A kicking, as with a booted foot.
2. The act by which a computer is booted.
   • […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101
3. (obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
   • Thou, Linus, that louest still to be promoting,
     Because I sport, about King Henries marriage:
     Think' st this will proue a matter worth the carriage.
     But let it alone, Lynus, it is no booting.1618, John Harrington, The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington […]
4. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) Homicide by gunfire.
   • C4 run man through the alley
     Get a man down with the swammy
     Get a man down with the whammy
     Boot couple niggas on the road
     No face no case with the bally (booting)2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics)