Meanings
present singular third person boots out · participle present booting out · participle past booted out · past booted out
- colloquialtransitiveEmphatic synonym of kick out: to remove, to eject, to expel; to dismiss (from a position, job, etc.).
‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […] ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’
1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 19Synonyms: kick out
Synonyms & antonyms
verbEmphatic synonym of kick out: to remove, to eject, to expel; to dismiss (from a position, job, etc.).
More synonyms by meaning
verbput out or expel from a place
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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