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jack-boot

jack-boot is the alternative form of jackboot.

Meaning of jackboot

Noun

jackboot (plural jackboots)

  1. A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
    • On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding, a pawnbroker’s ticket, a pair of ruffles, a very little muff, an immense broadsword, a Wycherley comb, a jackboot, and an old plumed hat; […]1829, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter V, in Devereux. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
  2. (broadly, informal) The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
    • That country has been under the jackboot of the military for years.

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Forms of jack-boot

Noun
pluraljack-boots
Verb
third-person singular presentjack-boots
present participlejack-booting
past participlejack-booted
pastjack-booted

Questions about jack-boot

What is jack-boot the alternative form of?
Jack-boot is the alternative form of jackboot.

Words near jack-boot in the dictionary

  1. jack-backs
  2. jack-ball
  3. jack-balls
  4. jack-bean
  5. jack-beans
  6. jack-boot
  7. jack-booted
  8. jack-booting
  9. jack-boots
  10. jack-boy
  11. jack-boys

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