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get the boot

get the boot verb: to be dismissed from employment.

Verb

get the boot (third-person singular simple present gets the boot, present participle getting the boot, simple past got the boot, past participle (UK) got the boot or (US) gotten the boot)

  1. (idiomatic) To be dismissed from employment.
    • "Put it down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag." "And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return," said Lord John.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    • Tony Parsons has claimed that he quit before he "got the boot" from the Daily Mirror, after former colleagues expressed their anger over remarks that he made suggesting he had defected to the Sun because he needed to support his family.2013 September 16, Lisa O'Carroll, quoting Tony Parsons, “Tony Parsons: I quit the Mirror before I got the boot”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. (idiomatic) To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave.

get the boot meaning in Bengali

get the boot in Bengali

চাকরি থেকে বরখাস্ত হওয়া, ভোটের মাধ্যমে বাদ পড়া

Synonyms of get the boot

Forms of get the boot

third-person singular presentgets the boot
present participlegetting the boot
pastgot the boot
past participle UKgot the boot
past participle USgotten the boot

Questions about get the boot

What does get the boot mean?
Get the boot means to be dismissed from employment.
What is get the boot in Bengali?
Get the boot in Bengali is চাকরি থেকে বরখাস্ত হওয়া, ভোটের মাধ্যমে বাদ পড়া. See Get the boot meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is get the boot?
Get the boot is a verb.
What is the past tense of get the boot?
The past tense of get the boot is got the boot.

Words near get the boot in the dictionary

  1. get the ball rolling
  2. get the band back together
  3. get the best of
  4. get the better of
  5. get the bird
  6. get the boot
  7. get the bulge on
  8. get the bullet
  9. get the chop
  10. get the dirty water off one's chest
  11. get the door

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Adapted from Wiktionary: get the boot (page history and authors); get the boot (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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