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fill one's boots

fill one's boots verb: to eat heartily.

Verb

fill one's boots (third-person singular simple present fills one's boots, present participle filling one's boots, simple past and past participle filled one's boots)

  1. (informal) To eat heartily.
    • Famine might come back, so fill your boots.2012, Aubrey Malone, The Mammoth Book of Irish Humour
  2. (idiomatic) To perform at a high level in one's official role.
    • Rashford added insult to injury as he drilled through the legs of Ward, with England firmly in the mood to fill their boots against a ragged Wales.2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline

Forms of fill one's boots

third-person singular presentfills one's boots
present participlefilling one's boots
past participlefilled one's boots
pastfilled one's boots

Questions about fill one's boots

What does fill one's boots mean?
Fill one's boots means to eat heartily.
What part of speech is fill one's boots?
Fill one's boots is a verb.
What is the past tense of fill one's boots?
The past tense of fill one's boots is filled one's boots.

Words near fill one's boots in the dictionary

  1. fill kill
  2. fill light
  3. fill line
  4. fill lines
  5. fill music
  6. fill one's boots
  7. fill one's face
  8. fill one's hand
  9. fill one's pants
  10. fill one's pockets
  11. fill or kill

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