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boots upstairs

boots upstairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 boots upstairs

What is boots upstairs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Boots upstairs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of boot upstairs.

Words near boots upstairs in the dictionary

  1. boots on the ground
  2. boots one
  3. boots out
  4. boots theory
  5. boots up
  6. boots upstairs
  7. bootscan
  8. bootscaning
  9. bootscanning
  10. bootscans
  11. bootscraper

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