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/ˈd͡ʒækbuːt/ · noun
A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era..
On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding, a pawnbroker’s ticket, a pair of ruffles, a very little muff, an immense broadsword, a Wycherley comb, a jackboot, and an old plumed hat; […]
There was a wonderful variety of costume to be seen and studied among the persons around me, […] other soldiers in helmets and jackboots; French officers of various uniform; monks and priests; attendants, in old-fashioned and gorgeous livery; […] so that, in any other country, the scene might have been taken for a fancy ball.
The coat itself, a long one of some fuzzy material, with huge side pockets into which the man's hands were plunged, reached to the cavernous tops of jackboots where the nether ends of his trousers were stowed away.
That country has been under the jackboot of the military for years.
The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper.
All his childhood they had stormed through the cinema newsreels, jackbooting triumphantly through Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Paris. Now they would jackboot through Garmouth. Followed by the Gestapo.
Use jack boot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jack boot means A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era..
Common synonyms include hessian, wellington, wellington boot, hessian boot.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding, a pawnbroker’s ticket, a pair of ruffles, a very little muff, an immense broadsword, a Wycherley comb, a jackboot, and an old plumed hat; […]
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