jackbooted
AmericanEtymology
Origin of jackbooted
Example Sentences
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Komasa knows authoritarianism in its most flagrant, brutal forms, but his new film “Anniversary” imagines a scenario in which fascism doesn’t stomp in, jackbooted, but creeps, pretty and ladylike, on kitten-heeled feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025
Sparks, grand without being beautiful, has one of the few steakhouse wine lists that don’t try to strong-arm you into getting an expensive, jackbooted red.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
There is a publicity photo of the Cinna the Poet scene, with Joseph Cotten appearing as one of the jackbooted thugs; Cotten had playfully signed it, “To my greatest admirer, Norman Lloyd.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2015
What’s more, Radar does not dispatch a V for Vendetta fantasy of jackbooted thugs to people’s doors after it uncovers a worrisome tweet.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2014
Then four jackbooted, riot-helmeted dropcops jumped out and ran into the building, followed by a guy in a suit.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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