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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
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
Boot, or
Gaiter (vehicle) , a flexible sleeve covering a moving part
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