boots
UK/buːts/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
British/bʉwts/
boots is the plural of boot.
boots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of boot.
Noun (2)
boots (plural bootses)
- A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
- He gave the boots at the Coffee Palace a shilling when that official found his key for him, and having put his boots carefully in the bag with his shirts, and placed his socks outside to be cleaned for the morning, he went to bed in a state of great mental exultation, and slept soundly.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 51
- If you can get the Boots at the Crown to talk, he will tell you a story which he thinks is amusing, about how he was knocked up at two in the morning by a gentleman who arrived in a car which he had driven in his underclothes.c. 1920s-1940s, A. M. Burrage, “Druid's Croft”, in Druid's Croft & Other Stories, published 2013
- The ship in a fleet having the most junior captain.
- […] he sent on the 22d. Vice-Admiral Rook into it, with several Men of War and Fire-Ships, besides the Boots of the Fleet, to endeavour to destroy them: […]1705, The Life of William III, Late King of England, and Prince of Orange, page 334
- The captain of Hotspur was Lieutenant T. Herrick, the youngest commanding officer in all the destroyers, and says Hotspur was the “boots” of the fleet! Being the junior ship, she was given jobs no-one wanted.2005, Frank Wade, A Midshipman's War, page 115
Meaning of boot
Noun
boot (plural boots)
- A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
- A blow with the foot; a kick.
- Synonyms:
- kick
- A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
- Oppression, an oppressor.
- Dr. Jayakar was not only one of them but was at places the prime mover in the historic decisions taken by a nation struggling to get free of the British boot.1958, Filmindia
- A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
- The boot, thumbscrews, the shackles, and a contraption called the "warm hose", were only a few of the inflictions being too terrible to mention.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 221
Noun (1)
boots pl (plural only)
- A condom.
- I said throw away the boots, I want my little youth1980, Black Uhuru, "Abortion", Black Uhuru (re-released as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1983)
- Synonyms:
- condom, cum catcher, rubber
Adverb
boots (not comparable)
- Used as an intensifier: very, to a great degree; exceptionally.
- That dress is fierce boots!
- Hello-tis, it's Jorgeous! This spicy Latina dancing diva started drag at the age of 16 and never looked back. A fierce performer who was born to do drag, Jorgeous is looking to dance the house down boots all the way to the top.2021 December 2, Raffy Ermac, “Meet the Sickening Queens of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 14”, in Out
- Synonyms:
- above a bit, absolutely, sorely, widely, horribly, horrendously, bone, abundantly, all too, all
Synonyms of boots
Forms of boots
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Words formed from boots
Phrases with boots
- boots up
- boots one
- boots out
- car boots
- gum boots
- hip boots
- pac boots
- ski boots
- top boots
- ugg boots
- army boots
- cold boots
115 more phrasesFewer phrases
- jack boots
- jump boots
- moon boots
- warm boots
- work boots
- yeti boots
- ankle boots
- bunny boots
- field boots
- go-go boots
- Jesus boots
- knock boots
- pixie boots
- pubic boots
- rugby boots
- stoga boots
- thigh boots
- ballet boots
- Beatle boots
- boots theory
- bovver boots
- chukka boots
- combat boots
- cowboy boots
- Denver boots
- desert boots
- Eskimo boots
- hiking boots
- jungle boots
- knocks boots
- monkey boots
- mukluk boots
- Oregon boots
- riding boots
- roller boots
- roping boots
- rubber boots
- safety boots
- smarty boots
- tanker boots
- trench boots
- winter boots
- wobbly boots
- boots and all
- Chelsea boots
- cowgirl boots
- deicing boots
- gravity boots
- Hessian boots
- hobnail boots
- kicking boots
- knocked boots
- Puss in Boots
- Russian boots
- saguaro boots
- Spanish boots
- walking boots
- boots upstairs
- engineer boots
- knocking boots
- like old boots
- napoleon boots
- platform boots
- shot the boots
- bet one's boots
- shoot the boots
- steel-toe boots
- bets one's boots
- fill one's boots
- shoots the boots
- wellington boots
- boots and rallies
- engineering boots
- fills one's boots
- hang up the boots
- hung up the boots
- filled one's boots
- hangs up the boots
- in someone's boots
- mud on one's boots
- seven-league boots
- shooting the boots
- strap on the boots
- tough as old boots
- betting one's boots
- boots on the ground
- filling one's boots
- hang up one's boots
- hung up one's boots
- fill someone's boots
- hanging up the boots
- hangs up one's boots
- lick someone's boots
- quake in one's boots
- shake in one's boots
- shook in one's boots
- fills someone's boots
- licks someone's boots
- quaked in one's boots
- quakes in one's boots
- shaken in one's boots
- shakes in one's boots
- filled someone's boots
- hanging up one's boots
- licked someone's boots
- quaking in one's boots
- shaking in one's boots
- filling someone's boots
- licking someone's boots
- too big for one's boots
- had one's heart in one's boots
- has one's heart in one's boots
- have one's heart in one's boots
- having one's heart in one's boots
- a lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on
Words that rhyme with boots
Questions about boots
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Adapted from Wiktionary: boots (page history and authors); boot (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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