Definition of Booting

1. n. Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

2. n. A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.

Definition of Booting

1. Verb. (present participle of boot) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Booting

1. boot [v] - See also: boot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Booting

boothite
boothlike
boothman
boothmate
boothmates
boothmen
boothose
booths
boothy
bootie
booties
bootiful
bootikin
bootikins
bootilicious
booting (current term)
booting up
bootjack
bootjacked
bootjacking
bootjacks
bootlace
bootlaces
bootlast
bootlasts
bootle
bootleg
bootlegged
bootlegger
bootlegger reverse

Literary usage of Booting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"... of) »booting at я target or mark (practised ai a festive amusement in Germany); .... booting ..."

2. The Little Book of Boston Parking Horrors by Michael Silverstein (2002)
"Ticketing and booting Parking meters were invented in Oklahoma City in 1935. The idea came from a newspaperman, Carl Magee, who is also credited with ..."

3. Genetics; an Introduction to the Study of Heredity by Herbert Eugene Walter (1922)
"The character of booting and its alternative absence, however, segregate out in true Mendelian fashion when these hybrids are subsequently crossed together. ..."

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