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boot

noun as in heavy, often tall, shoe

Strongest match

Weak matches

verb as in start operating system

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By then it was clear to many that he had been right and they had been wrong and that he had gotten rich to boot.

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Consider these two scenarios: a player is breaking forward and is brought down by a tactical foul, or a goalkeeper comes out of his area and boots the ball into the crowd.

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His lawyer told the BBC that he himself felt that Mr Kuznetsov had been "abandoned" by the Ukrainian government "like an old boot".

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That’s been tried, and instead autocrats take over and crush dissent, boots on throats.

“I’m working on the characters. These are big boots to fill,” she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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