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filled one's boots

filled one's boots is the simple past and past participle of fill one's boots.

Meaning of fill one's boots

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

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What is filled one's boots the simple past and past participle of?
Filled one's boots is the simple past and past participle of fill one's boots.

Words near filled one's boots in the dictionary

  1. filled in
  2. filled in the blank
  3. filled in the blanks
  4. filled milk
  5. filled milks
  6. filled one's boots
  7. filled one's face
  8. filled one's hand
  9. filled one's pants
  10. filled out
  11. filled pause

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