booting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of boot

plural bootings

1. countableuncountableA kicking, as with a booted foot.
2. countableuncountablecomputingThe act by which a computer is booted.

   […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.

   1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101

3. countableobsoleteuncountableAdvantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

   Thou, Linus, that louest still to be promoting, Because I sport, about King Henries marriage: Think' st this will proue a matter worth the carriage. But let it alone, Lynus, it is no booting.

   1618, John Harrington, The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington […]

4. Multicultural London EnglishcountableslanguncountableHomicide by gunfire.

   C4 run man through the alley Get a man down with the swammy Get a man down with the whammy Boot couple niggas on the road No face no case with the bally (booting)

   2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics)

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   Just got bail, three shootings I ain’t gotta call up Pacman To go up to country to do some bootings (bu-bu) Tryna aim for your head Pronounce man dead, pull up and suit him

   2019 May 16, “P4DP”, in Digga D (lyrics), Double Tap Diaries EP