boot up

Idioms  

1. Start a computer, as in When you've booted up, it's best not to turn off the computer until you're done for the day. The term, dating from the late 1970s, was a shortening of bootstrap, another computer idiom referring to using one set of instructions to load another set of instructions. Also see log in.

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Example Sentences

Boot up and watch the results on the screen of your choice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boot up a computer program called the Axe, for instance, and you can jam along with Stevie Wonder's hit song Superstition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boot up electronic voting machines and print out receipts to certify that no votes have yet been cast.

From Time Magazine Archive