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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
boot
▪ I. boot [boot boots booted booting] noun, verb BrE [buːt] NAmE [buːt]
noun 
1. a strong shoe that covers the foot and ankle and often the lower part of the leg: (BrE)walking boots
• (NAmE)hiking boots
•a pair of black leather boots
•cowboy boots
see also ↑desert boot, ↑football boot, ↑wellington
2. (BrE) (NAmE trunk)the space at the back of a car that you put bags, cases, etc. in
• I'll put the luggage in the boot.
• Did you lock the boot?
see also ↑car boot sale
3. usually singular (informal)a quick hard kick
•He gave the ball a tremendous boot.
4. (NAmE) = ↑Denver boot
Rem: or
more at be/get too big for your boots at ↑big adj., fill sb's shoes/boots at ↑fill v., lick sb's boots at ↑lick v., (as) tough as old boots at ↑tough adj.
Word Origin:
n. and v. Middle English Old Norse bóti Old French bote
Old English bōt ‘advantage, remedy’ Germanic Dutch boete German Busse ‘penance, fine’ ↑better ↑best
Example Bank:
•The meat was as tough as old boots.
•What have you got in the boot?
•a pair of heavy walking boots
Idioms: ↑boot is on the other foot ▪ ↑get the boot ▪ ↑given the boot ▪ ↑put the boot in
Derived: ↑boot somebody out
verb
1. transitive ~ sth + adv./prep. to kick sb/sth hard with your foot
•He booted the ball clear of the goal.
2. intransitive, transitive ~ (sth) (up) (computing)to prepare a computer for use by loading its ↑operating system; to be prepared in this way
3. transitive be/get booted (NAmE, informal)if you or your car is booted, a piece of equipment is fixed to the car's wheel so that you cannot drive it away, usually because the car is illegally parked
see also ↑clamp
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
n. and v. Middle English Old Norse bóti Old French bote
Old English bōt ‘advantage, remedy’ Germanic Dutch boete German Busse ‘penance, fine’ ↑better ↑best
Syn: throw out
See also: ↑shoe is on the other foot ▪ ↑trunk
▪ II. to boot idiom
(old-fashioned humorous)used to add a comment to sth that you have said
•He was a vegetarian, and a fussy one to boot.
Main entry: ↑bootidiom
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