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boots

nounnounnounadverbverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//buːts//
  • United Kingdom//bʉwts//
  • United States//buts//
  • Australia//bʉːts//

A condom.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of bootplural of boot

noun

  1. 1

    slangA condom.

    I said throw away the boots, I want my little youth

noun

  1. 1

    datedA servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

    He gave the boots at the Coffee Palace a shilling when that official found his key for him, and having put his boots carefully in the bag with his shirts, and placed his socks outside to be cleaned for the morning, he went to bed in a state of great mental exultation, and slept soundly.

    If you can get the Boots at the Crown to talk, he will tell you a story which he thinks is amusing, about how he was knocked up at two in the morning by a gentleman who arrived in a car which he had driven in his underclothes.

    The old beggar ran up and down in his tattered toga, acting as both boots [translating Hausknecht] and waiter.

    The young man with Doyler, who indeed no longer worked at Lee's of Kingstown, but had advanced to a position of boots and bottle-washer at the Russell Hotel adjacent the Green, was looking uneasy. […] The boots was sure.

  2. 2

    slangThe ship in a fleet having the most junior captain.

    […] he sent on the 22d. Vice-Admiral Rook into it, with several Men of War and Fire-Ships, besides the Boots of the Fleet, to endeavour to destroy them: […]

    The captain of Hotspur was Lieutenant T. Herrick, the youngest commanding officer in all the destroyers, and says Hotspur was the “boots” of the fleet! Being the junior ship, she was given jobs no-one wanted.

adverb

  1. 1

    Used as an intensifier: very, to a great degree; exceptionally.

    That dress is fierce boots!

    Hello-tis, it's Jorgeous! This spicy Latina dancing diva started drag at the age of 16 and never looked back. A fierce performer who was born to do drag, Jorgeous is looking to dance the house down boots all the way to the top.

    As for Lindsay [Hubbard], it’s like this Courrèges dress was hand dyed to look as excellent on her as a dress could possibly look. Her breasts are sat, her waist snatched, and all the other sorts of things I could possibly say about a girl boss queen who slays boots the house.

    [see title]

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of bootthird-person singular simple present indicative of boot

Forms

plural
bootses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).