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A
boot is a type of footwear.
Boot (s ) may also refer to:
Businesses
Places
Boot, Cumbria , a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England
Boot Key , an island in the Florida Keys
Boot Lake (Nova Scotia) , Canada
Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
Boot Rock , South Sandwich Islands
Boots Creek (Manitoba) , Canada
"The Boot", an informal name for
Italy , due to the country's shape
People with the name
Boot (surname) , a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots
Boots (nickname) , a list of people with the nickname
Boots (musician) , an American record producer
Boots Riley , American rapper, lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club
Gypsy Boots (1914–2004), also known as Boots Bootzin, American fitness pioneer, actor and writer born Robert Bootzin
Little Boots , English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
Boot, an Old English Sheepdog in
The Perishers , a British cartoon strip
Terry Boot, a member of
Dumbledore's Army in the Harry Potter series
William Boot , the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop
Boots, a tiger who sang and played guitar in the ITV children's series
Animal Kwackers
Boots, the title character of the American comic strip
Boots and Her Buddies , shortened by some newspapers as Boots
Boots, the hero of the Norwegian fairy tale "
Boots and the Troll "
Boots, a monkey on the television series
Dora the Explorer
Boots Malone, the title character of the film
Boots Malone
Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, a main character in the
Bruno and Boots children's novel series
Films
Boots (film) , a 1919 American silent film starring Dorothy Gish and Richard Barthelmess
Das Boot ("The Boat") , a 1981 German movie by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name
Music
Labels
Boot Records , a former Canadian country, bluegrass and contemporary folk label formed in 1971
Albums and EPs
Boots (album) , a 1966 album by Nancy Sinatra
"Boots" (EP) , a 2002 EP by industrial music band KMFDM with a cover of the Nancy Sinatra song
Boot! , a 2013 album by The Thing
Boots , a 2002 album by
Noe Venable
Songs
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
Computing
Boot (software) , a Clojure build automation tool
/boot/ directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
Booting , the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when turned on
Ping-Pong virus , alternatively called "boot"
Roles or professions
Boot, a recruit undergoing
recruit training in the United States Marine Corps or Navy, or an inexperienced marine or sailor
Boot or boots, a servant who acts as a
shoeshiner , especially in a hotel
Transportation
Boot (car) , the storage compartment of a car
Boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn
coach , used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage
Deicing boot , a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems
Denver boot , also known as a wheel clamp, which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement
Other uses
Boot (medical) , a protective device worn while an injured foot is healing
Boot (real estate) , any property received by a taxpayer in an IRC 1031 exchange which is not like-kind to the relinquished property
Boot (torture) , a torture device for crushing the human foot
Boot of beer , a form of beer glassware in the shape of a boot
Build-Operate-Own-Transfer , an arrangement for funding projects
Cylinder boot , a rubber protector for the bottom end of a scuba cylinder
Boot, Old English for
estover , an English law term
Boot, the outer shell of a
reed pipe in a pipe organ
See also
Topics referred to by the same term