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'Boot' may refer to:

★ Boot, a type of shoe that covers the foot and ankle, and often the shins of the leg

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★ Derived from this meaning, to "boot" can mean:

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★ to kick something or someone

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★ to evict

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★ to be terminated from a place of employment

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★ to punish

★ Bote, a legal compensation, profit or use, hence the phrase ''to boot''

★ Boot (real estate), receipt of something of value, especially in the course of a 1031 exchange

★ Boot, Cumbria, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the Lake District of England

★ Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects

★ Bootleg recording, often abbreviated to "boot"

★ Car boot, in British and Australian English, the compartment of a car in which luggage and other cargo is stored (in American English, the ''trunk''). Hence a Car boot sale for the sale of items from car boots.

★ boot, the outer shell of a Reed pipe in a pipe organ.

★ boot, to vomit, especially after binge drinking (slang)

★ boot, the German and Dutch word for boat

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★ ''Das Boot'', a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, adapted into a 1981 film by Wolfgang Petersen

★ Boot, an exclamitory remark often heard in America, releasing emmense amounts of anger. Not to be confused with the Iron Boots, from the Legend of Zelda, nor the boot left on the driver side wheel of a car.

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★ Derived from the comical artists Xero Nova and Virgo

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★ Boot, a last name in the Netherlands

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★ Jacob Boot (1903-1986), Dutch athlete

Contents

Computing

Devices

Boots

See also

Computing

★ Bootstrapping, any process where a simple system activates a more complicated system, used in computing, linguistics, physics, biology, electronics, statistics, and finance

★ Booting, the operations required to place a computer into its normal operating configuration after power is supplied to the hardware

★ the /boot directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process

★ ''boot'', an American computer magazine now known as ''Maximum PC''

★ boot, an alternative name for the ping-pong virus

Devices

★ Boot (torture), various torture devices applied to the feet or legs

★ Horse boot, veterinary devices for treatment of the feet or legs of horses

★ Denver boot, a wheel clamp used to immobilize a vehicle

★ Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems.

Boots

★ Boots, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, who served in the British Army in Burma

★ Alliance Boots, a British based pharmaceuticals company

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★ Boots Group, the high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom

★ One of at least five different musical releases (albums and singles):

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★ "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"

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★ "Boots (KMFDM)"

★ Boots (cigarette), a brand of cigarette in Mexico

★ Boots (bishop), the youngest bishop of the House of Lords, whose duty it is to read prayers.

★ Boots (servant), a junior household servant whose task was the cleaning and polishing of boots and shoes (''compare bootboy'')

★ Dora the Explorer#Boots, the talking monkey on the children's television series, ''Dora the Explorer''

See also

★ Boötes, a constellation.