Boot (disambiguation)

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Boot may refer to:

Boot, a type of footwear that covers the foot and ankle, and often the shins of the leg
hence the transitive verb to boot and the substantivation booting mean to kick something or someone, in order to evict ('get the boot' also means be sacked) or to punish (compare slippering)
a legal compensation, profit or use, hence the phrase to boot (see bote for origin)
Boot (village), a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the Lake District of England.

A computing term:

Bootstrapping, any process where a simple system activates a more complicated system, used in computing, linguistics, physics, biology, electronics, statistics, and finance
Booting, the operations required to place a computer into its normal operating configuration after power is supplied to the hardware
the /boot directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
boot, an American computer magazine now known as Maximum PC
an alternative name for the ping-pong virus

A device applied to feet or wheels:

Boot (torture), various torture devices applied to the feet or legs
Horse boot, veterinary devices for treatment of the feet or legs of horses
Denver boot, a clamp used to immobilize a vehicle's wheels
Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems.

Other:

Bootleg recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
Car boot, in British and Australian English, the compartment of a car, usually in the rear, in which luggage and other cargo is stored (in American English, the trunk)

The plural boots may refer to:

Boots Group, the high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom
One of at least five different musical releases (albums and singles):
* "Boots (Nancy Sinatra)"
* "Boots (KMFDM)"
Boots (cigarette), a brand of cigarette in Mexico
Boots (bishop), the youngest bishop of the House of Lords, whose duty it is to read prayers.
Boots (servant), a junior household servant whose task was the cleaning and polishing of boots and shoes (compare bootboy)
Boots, the talking monkey on the children's television series, Dora the Explorer