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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 bean
  2. jack beans
  3. Jack Benny
  4. jack block
  5. jack blocks
  6. jack boot
  7. jack booted
  8. jack booting
  9. jack boots
  10. jack boy
  11. jack boys

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