Season three was the strongest one the series has produced yet, to boot.
The rule is that every time a new writer enters the canon an old one has to get the boot.
He became as polarizing a figure as the war itself, court jester to Nixon and corporate shill to boot.
And he was less than a month from his third decade, to boot.
Acts of violence include death by hanging, rifle butt, boot heel, tank tracks and fireball.
I'll trade this chestnut—and he's a fine traveler—with a good price to boot.
But this time he saw only the foot of the woman clad in a man's boot.
So saying, he thrust his boot into the snow, intending to kick it over the girl.
"It wasn't anything," said Grant shortly, tugging at a boot.
As well try to mend a spider's web when you have put your boot through it.
footwear, early 14c., from Old French bote "boot" (12c.), with corresponding words in Provençal and Spanish, of unknown origin, perhaps from a Germanic source. Originally for riding boots only. An old Dorsetshire word for "half-boots" was skilty-boots [Halliwell, Wright].
"profit, use," Old English bot "help, relief, advantage; atonement," literally "a making better," from Proto-Germanic *boto (see better (adj.)). Cf. German Buße "penance, atonement," Gothic botha "advantage." Now mostly in phrase to boot (Old English to bote).
"start up a computer," 1975, from bootstrap (v.), a 1958 derived verb from bootstrap (n.) in the computer sense.
"to kick," 1877, American English, from boot (n.1). Generalized sense of "eject, kick out" is from 1880. Related: Booted; booting.
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To start up or input a computer'soperatingsystem:Thetypicalfirststepinworking with a computer, then, is to load the DOS programs; this is called ''booting up''/ He showed me how to log in and boot the operating system
[1970s+ Computers; fr earlierbootstrap,becauseafterasimpleactionlikepressing one key, the computer loads the operating system itself, as if it were raising itself by its own bootstraps]
