jack-booted

comparative more jack-booted · superlative most jack-booted

1. alternativeAlternative form of jackbooted.

   He wouldn't tell me — blew up about jack-booted gestapos trampling over the leddies' rooms, and took himself off in a black temper.

   1948, Robert Alfred, John Walling, The Late Unlamented, page 170

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   She seemed to feel silent, jack-booted watchers standing outside frightened houses, figures kneeling to scrub the pavements, children coldly excluded from their familiar playgrounds, the informer's whisper in the café, fear and suspicion like rheumatism fastening upon the easy intercourse of friends—all the vicious little tricks of modern tyranny.

   1939, Nicholas Blake [pseudonym; Cecil Day-Lewis], “The Episode of the Amorous Cricketer”, in The Smiler with the Knife, London: Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN

   The Zeppelinfeld arena, in which all those jack-booted men goose-stepped, is an athletic field for American soldiers and also is the setting for local rock festivals.

   1986, Darwin Porter, Dollarwise Guide to Germany, page 324

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of jack-boot