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boot [n]

1)	footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg

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2)	British term for the luggage compartment in a car

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automobile_trunk britain

3)	the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks"

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bang charge flush kick rush thrill

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excitement beatify thrill thrill agitate

4)	protective casing for something that resembles a leg

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case

5)	an instrument of torture that is used to crush the foot and leg

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iron_boot iron_heel

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instrument_of_torture

6)	the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent"

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kick kicking

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boot [v]

1)	kick; give a boot to

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kick boot_out

2)	cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer"

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bring_up reboot

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resuscitate

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

(from "bootstrap" or "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps") To load and initialise the operating system on a computer.

See reboot, cold boot, warm boot, soft boot, hard boot, bootstrap, bootstrap loader.

[Jargon File]

(1995-11-27)

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