Jack-boot
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Jack-boot is a noun meaning Alternative form of jackboot.
Meaning
Alternative form of jackboot.
Example Sentences
Oh, damn your strops, I always strop my razor upon an old jack-boot.
Never was love more brutally jack-booted by power than in Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald.
The squatters' Australia was a rough society of rugged wealth-seekers jack-booting their determined way over an unprivileged great majority.
This is the sort of re/gime promised to those who are so weak as to remain under the jack-boot, not to speak of labour camps in France and perhaps in Germany and Poland;
Word Forms
- jack-boots
- jack-booting
- jack-booted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include top-boot, moonboot, boot-black, thighboot, boot-tree, sly-boot.
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