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noun, plural boots.British.

a servant, as at a hotel, who blacks or polishes shoes and boots.

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Origin of boots

First recorded in 1615–25; plural of boot¹; see -s³

Words nearby boots

bootlick, bootlicker, bootloader, boot money, boot out, boots, boots and all, boots and saddles, bootstrap, bootstrap memory, bootstrap paradox

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How to use boots in a sentence

There’s flat boots as well that give combat boots vibes that are super comfortable, but still give you that make a statement feel.
Tinashe And ShoeDazzle Team Up For A Footwear Collection|Blake Newby|October 18, 2021|Essence.com
If anything demonstrates the power of comedy to make dictators quake in their boots, it is the events of the past few days.
The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror|David Keyes|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sometimes there would be caricatures in which his body was swallowed up by his boots.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor|S. C. Gwynne|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For the next hour, she verbally humiliated him while he licked her boots and feet until they were completely cleaned.
Whip It: Secrets of a Dominatrix|Justin Jones|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Under the table, I could see that his combat boots were actually black sneakers, frayed at the seams.
Local Truces Are Syria’s Sad Little Pieces of Peace|Joshua Hersh|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Have you met the lumbersexual: all beards, flannel shirts, and work boots?
How Straight World Stole ‘Gay’: The Last Gasp of the ‘Lumbersexual’|Tim Teeman|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
"I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
Isaac Bolum had fixed himself comfortably on two legs of his chair, with the projecting soles of his boots caught behind the rung.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
Tip wore leaky boots all last winter, but when spring came he bought Mrs. Pulsifer a sewing machine.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
When the first sunbeam gleamed through the window of Bat's tiny kitchen, I arose, pulled on my boots and went to feed my horse.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
She wore soiled Burberry, high-legged tan boots, and a peaked cap of distinctly military appearance.
Dope|Sax Rohmer

British Dictionary definitions for boots

boots

/ (buːts) /

noun plural boots

British (formerly) a shoeblack who cleans the guests' shoes in a hotel

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