jackboot
English
Noun
jackboot (plural jackboots)
Derived terms
See also
- Hessian boot
- cowboy boot
Verb
jackboot (third-person singular simple present jackboots, present participle jackbooting, simple past and past participle jackbooted)
- (transitive) To stamp on with a jackboot.
- 2000, Geoff Nicholson, Bedlam Burning
- The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper.
- 2000, Geoff Nicholson, Bedlam Burning
- (intransitive) To march in jackboots.
- 1990, Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners (page 152)
- All his childhood they had stormed through the cinema newsreels, jackbooting triumphantly through Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Paris. Now they would jackboot through Garmouth. Followed by the Gestapo.
- 1990, Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners (page 152)
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