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got the boot

got the boot is the simple past and past participle of get the boot.

Meaning of get the boot

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
  2. (idiomatic) To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave.

Questions about got the boot

What is got the boot the simple past and past participle of?
Got the boot is the simple past and past participle of get the boot.

Words near got the boot in the dictionary

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

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