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give someone the boot

give someone the boot verb: to fire, sack, or eject someone.

Verb

give someone the boot (third-person singular simple present gives someone the boot, present participle giving someone the boot, simple past gave someone the boot, past participle given someone the boot)

  1. (UK, idiomatic, informal) To fire, sack, or eject someone.
    • I am sorry for your husband and children, but I have to give you the boot.
    • They said I couldn't do the job and gave me the boot. So, now I'm looking for work again.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, the, boot.

give someone the boot meaning in Malayalam

give someone the boot in Malayalam

dismiss, discharge, give someone their notice
ജോലിയിൽനിന്നു പിരിച്ചുവിടുക, പിരിച്ചുവിടുക, ഇറക്കിവിടുക, ഉദ്യോഗത്തിൽനിന്നു പിരിച്ചയയ്ക്കുക, പിരിയുമാറാക്കുക, സേവനത്തിൽനിന്നു നീക്കം ചെയ്യുക

Forms of give someone the boot

third-person singular presentgives someone the boot
present participlegiving someone the boot
pastgave someone the boot
past participlegiven someone the boot
alternative formgive someone das boot

Questions about give someone the boot

What does give someone the boot mean?
Give someone the boot means to fire, sack, or eject someone.
What is give someone the boot in Malayalam?
Give someone the boot in Malayalam is ജോലിയിൽനിന്നു പിരിച്ചുവിടുക, പിരിച്ചുവിടുക, ഇറക്കിവിടുക. See Give someone the boot meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is give someone the boot?
Give someone the boot is a verb.
What is the past tense of give someone the boot?
The past tense of give someone the boot is gave someone the boot.

Words near give someone the boot in the dictionary

  1. give someone one
  2. give someone something to think about
  3. give someone the air
  4. give someone the arm
  5. give someone the bag
  6. give someone the boot
  7. give someone the brush-off
  8. give someone the business
  9. give someone the chair
  10. give someone the cold shoulder
  11. give someone the creeps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: give someone the boot (page history and authors); give someone the boot (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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