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filling one's boots

filling one's boots is the present participle and gerund 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 filling one's boots the present participle and gerund of?
Filling one's boots is the present participle and gerund of fill one's boots.

Words near filling one's boots in the dictionary

  1. filling gas
  2. filling gases
  3. filling in
  4. filling in the blank
  5. filling in the blanks
  6. filling one's boots
  7. filling one's face
  8. filling one's hand
  9. filling one's pants
  10. filling out
  11. filling site

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