jack-boot

plural jack-boots

1. alternativeAlternative form of jackboot.

   Oh, damn your strops, I always strop my razor upon an old jack-boot.

   1803, Charles Dibdin, The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin - Volume 4, page 174

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   This is the sort of re/gime promised to those who are so weak as to remain under the jack-boot, not to speak of labour camps in France and perhaps in Germany and Poland;

   1943, D. Barlone, A French Officer's Diary (23 August 1939-1 October 1940), page 113

   He carried a Bible in his jack-boot: but did that prevent him, as Oliver rode past him with an approving smile on Naseby field, thinking himself a very handsome fellow, with his moustache and imperial, and bright red coat, and cuirass well polished, in spite of many a dint, as he sate his father's great black horse as gracefully and firmly as any long-locked and essenced cavalier in front of him?

   2008, Charles Kingsley, Plays and Puritans, page 80

present singular third person jack-boots · participle present jack-booting · participle past jack-booted · past jack-booted

1. alternativeAlternative form of jackboot.

   Never was love more brutally jack-booted by power than in Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald.

   1967, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, page 79

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   The squatters' Australia was a rough society of rugged wealth-seekers jack-booting their determined way over an unprivileged great majority.

   1946, Brian Charles Fitzpatrick, The Australian People, 1788-1945, page 150

   By jack-booting his way through the House with a guillotine motion and by denying its democratic rights, he is jack-booting his way through the security and peace of mind of 3 million private tenants, and he is destroying the housing hopes of hundreds of thousands of those who are in genuine housing need.

   1980, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)