boot one

verb

To make a mistake.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

verbboot one (third-person singular simple present boots one, present participle booting one, simple past and past participle booted one)

present singular third person boots one · participle present booting one · participle past booted one · past booted one

  1. slangball gamesTo make a mistake.

    […] to jeer at him when he booted one or fanned with a crucial run on base.

    1998, Eliot Asinof, Man on Spikes, page 68
    1 more example

    […] he played short with sweet ease, and looked good even when he booted one, […]

    2002, Brooke Horvath, Tim Wiles, Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, page 92
Cite this entry
APA

boot one. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boot%20one

MLA

“boot one.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boot%20one. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boot one,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boot%20one.

Source: boot one on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.