Definitions
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- n. A heel of a boot.
- n. An area of land protruding south of the eastern or western end of a southern border.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If I lived under the bootheel of such forces, I don't how I would react, how firmly I could hold to my ideal.
Blowback On the Border: The Purpose of the Terror War System
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He did 8.2 miles on his broken bootheel—the same route he used to run after his parking-lot shift—arriving in Quincy just before dark.
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Obama shouldn't have put it like "putting a bootheel on the throat of a business."
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Naturally, while figuratively talking about putting a bootheel on a throat is bad, LITERALLY putting a shoe on the back of an actual person's head, is perfectly okay!
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Not much happens at the lonely outpost of Antelope Wells, a border crossing in the remote bootheel area of New Mexico.
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I grew up in the bootheel of MO and I used to go squirrel hunting with my dad when I was very young and I always enjoyed the peace and quiet that I experienced while we were hunting.
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It's punishment rained down on a disposable generation, a giant bootheel silencing a thousand faceless Nextel chirps.
Scott Brown: The Wire and Cloverfield: Bad Weekend for 20-Somethings
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From this position, it would be but the work of a moment to twist her right bootheel and drop the holocam into her palm—and then what?
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Wherever she found to stash the holocam, she had to replace it with a thick wad of cash in her bootheel.
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Two corporals of the guard and one private soldier, none of whom she knew, led the search, and of course they found the trick bootheel and the money she had stashed there.
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