boot out

verb

Emphatic synonym of kick out: to remove, to eject, to expel; to dismiss (from a position, job, etc.).

Meanings

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

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

  1. 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 19

    Synonyms: kick out

  2. intransitivehobbiesTo fall or slide out of a turn due to excessive lean, which causes the athlete's boot to contact and pivot on the surface and the proper surface contact element to lose contact and traction.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbEmphatic synonym of kick out: to remove, to eject, to expel; to dismiss (from a position, job, etc.).

Similar

More synonyms by meaning

verbremove from a position or office

Broader

verbput out or expel from a place

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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