Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The porter or servant in a hotel who blacks the boots of guests and in some cases attends to the baggage. Formerly called a boot-catcher.
- noun In tales of Norse mythology, the youngest son of a family, always represented as especially clever and successful.
- noun A name applied to the youngest officer in a British regiment, or to the youngest member of a club, etc.
- noun The marsh-marigold, Caltha palustris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
boot . - noun sports The
sports shoes worn byplayers ofcertain games such ascricket andfootball . - noun dated A
servant at ahotel etc. whocleans andblacks the boots and shoes. (takes a singular verb) - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
boot .
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Examples
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My "I don't need to have a baby, I've got great boots boots*"
keris stainton 2009
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This chap's boots hadn't been cleaned for days, but they were _boots_, and not holes to put your feet into, like most people wear. "
The Hand in the Dark 1907
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Burns, the State Department's senior career foreign service officer, said the United States would support a U.N. Security Council resolution that includes and goes beyond a no-fly-zone, but would stop short of what he termed "boots on the ground," or direct intervention by U.S. or other ground troops.
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Burns, the State Department's senior career foreign service officer, said the United States would support a U.N. Security Council resolution that includes and goes beyond a no-fly-zone, but would stop short of what he termed "boots on the ground," or direct intervention by U.S. or other ground troops.
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Burns, the State Department's senior career foreign service officer, said the United States would support a U.N. Security Council resolution that includes and goes beyond a no-fly-zone, but would stop short of what he termed "boots on the ground," or direct intervention by U.S. or other ground troops.
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However, I will say that a night where I have dinner with Jon Stewart (and my wife whips him in a trivia contest), and then I have sex with Carrie Fisher in a Princess Leia outfit with leather boots is a pretty good night.
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And in this case they finally had to put what they call boots on the ground.
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But, of course, Paula, it represents a new development in this war, what they call boots on the ground.
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And the laced high-lows which they call their boots,
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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And the laced high-lows which they call their boots,
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 04: Songs in Many Keys Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
brtom commented on the word boots
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care
To tend the homely slighted Shepherds trade ...
Milton, Lycidas
December 15, 2006
ruzuzu commented on the word boots
"What boots it then to think on God or heaven?"
- Christopher Marlowe, 'Doctor Faustus'
Compare avails.
May 23, 2010