Jackboot

Quick meaning: Jackboot is a noun meaning A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.

Meaning

A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.

More Meanings

1. (informal, by extension) The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
2. (transitive) To stamp on with a jackboot.
3. (intransitive) To march in jackboots.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• jackboots
• jack-boot
• jack boot
• jackbooting
• jackbooted

Synonyms for jackboot

Depending on context, synonyms include hessian, wellington.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hessian, wellington, jack boot, workboot, boot, bootwear.

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