0 past simple and past participle of boot
1 to kick someone or something hard with the foot:
They booted him in the head.
2 When a computer boots (up), it becomes ready for use by getting the necessary information into its memory, and when you boot (up) a computer, you cause it to do this.
There are particular reasons why we assume ministers switch portfolios as opposed to being booted from the cabinet altogether.
His visit was a fiasco; and nine months later he was booted out of office.
Quite rightly, they booted us out last time.
The officers were booted, visored and had their sticks, and they put down that riot.
Will it definitely be booted out of county hall to make room for the people who will stay in the hotel?
Doors could be strengthened to stop the all-too-common practice of their being booted in.
They have either been forced to leave or booted out of the contract by the district health authority.
We need stronger doors for flats — at the moment such flats have flimsy doors that can be booted in all too easily.
