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fills one's boots

fills one's boots is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Words near fills one's boots in the dictionary

  1. fills
  2. fills away
  3. fills in
  4. fills in the blank
  5. fills in the blanks
  6. fills one's boots
  7. fills one's face
  8. fills one's hand
  9. fills one's pants
  10. fills out
  11. fills someone's boots

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