What does jack-boot mean?
Jack-boot means Alternative form of jackboot..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of jackboot..
Oh, damn your strops, I always strop my razor upon an old jack-boot.
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;
He carried a Bible in his jack-boot: but did that prevent him, as Oliver rode past him with an approving smile on Naseby field, thinking himself a very handsome fellow, with his moustache and imperial, and bright red coat, and cuirass well polished, in spite of many a dint, as he sate his father's great black horse as gracefully and firmly as any long-locked and essenced cavalier in front of him?
The squatters' Australia was a rough society of rugged wealth-seekers jack-booting their determined way over an unprivileged great majority.
Never was love more brutally jack-booted by power than in Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald.
By jack-booting his way through the House with a guillotine motion and by denying its democratic rights, he is jack-booting his way through the security and peace of mind of 3 million private tenants, and he is destroying the housing hopes of hundreds of thousands of those who are in genuine housing need.
Use jack-boot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Jack-boot means Alternative form of jackboot..
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Oh, damn your strops, I always strop my razor upon an old jack-boot.
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