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jackbooting

jackbooting is the present participle and gerund of jackboot.

Meaning of jackboot

Verb

jackboot (third-person singular simple present jackboots, present participle jackbooting, simple past and past participle jackbooted)

  1. (transitive) To stamp on with a jackboot.
    • The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper.2000, Geoff Nicholson, Bedlam Burning
  2. (intransitive) To march in jackboots.
    • All his childhood they had stormed through the cinema newsreels, jackbooting triumphantly through Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Paris. Now they would jackboot through Garmouth. Followed by the Gestapo.1990, Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners, page 152

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Questions about jackbooting

What is jackbooting the present participle and gerund of?
Jackbooting is the present participle and gerund of jackboot.

Words near jackbooting in the dictionary

  1. jackbeans
  2. jackbird
  3. jackbirds
  4. jackboot
  5. jackbooted
  6. jackbooting
  7. jackboots
  8. jackbox
  9. jackboxes
  10. jackboy
  11. jackboys

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