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bootheel
[ boot-heel ]
/ ˈbutˌhil /
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noun (sometimes initial capital letter)
an area of SE Missouri where the Missouri-Arkansas border dips southward forming a rectangular-shaped extension of the state.
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Origin of bootheel
Words nearby bootheel
bootery, Boötes, boot-faced, booth, booth-babe, bootheel, Boothia, Boothia Peninsula, boot hill, Booth, John Wilkes, boot hook
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How to use bootheel in a sentence
Say, don't you fellows remember how Greg ripped off the lower part of his left bootheel at football practice Friday afternoon?
The Grammar School Boys of Gridley|H. Irving HancockThere was a ring of a bootheel as the two men approached the cabin unsuspectingly.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O|Clair Blank