to boot

1. Besides, in addition. For example, It rained every day and it was cold to boot, or He said they'd lower the price of the car by $1,000 and throw in air conditioning to boot. This expression has nothing to do with footwear. Boot here is an archaic noun meaning “advantage,” and in the idiom has been broadened to include anything additional, good or bad. [c. a.d. 1000]

Example Sentences

Finally, he explored Amazon’s advertising business as an “underappreciated growth driver” — and with high margins to boot.

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Once more she tried to interest herself in the sweet misadventures of Edith-Anne Pevington, who not only lived with two loving and easily locatable parents but had her own pony to boot.

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A house in the city would be leased, a battalion of servants would be installed, and Lady Constance would be given a generous shopping allowance to boot.

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By then it was clear to many that he had been right and they had been wrong and that he had gotten rich to boot.

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But rarely have so many taken the risk, and in broad daylight to boot.

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Related Words

• again 
• further 
• likewise 
• more 
• still 
• too