Definition of Boot

Boot

Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.

Profit; gain; advantage; use.

To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?

To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.

A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.

A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.

To put boots on, esp. for riding.

To punish by kicking with a booted foot.

To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.

Booty; spoil.

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
R. Lee Ermey

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
Ani DiFranco

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
Barney Frank

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.
Shia LaBeouf

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.
Shirley Manson

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.
Adam Rich

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.
Mel Gibson