booter
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See also: Booter
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booter (plural booters)
- (computing) A program or process that boots.
- 1999, Tom Saulpaugh, Charles A Mirho, Inside the JavaOS operating system:
- JavaOS works with a variety of booters.
- 2009, Kevin M White, Mac OS X Support Essentials v106:
- If the firmware cannot locate a booter file, you will see a flashing folder icon with a question mark.
- (computing, video games) A game that is launched by booting directly from the floppy disk containing the game program, rather than starting the program from within the computer's standardized operating system.
- To allow full use of the system's limited resources and prevent users from making pirated copies of the game, the first version of Microsoft Flight Simulator was a booter, rather than being run from within DOS.
- The floppy disk used to launch a game in such a manner.
- (sports) A person who plays association football.
- 2017, “A Total of 68 booters from Davao Region will vie for slots in the national junior teams as football regional leg kicked off March 3 to 5 at the Fifa Football Training Center in Valencia, Bukidnon City.”, in Sun Star Davao:
- (Canada, slang) The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
- 1997, Ian Wilson, Sally Wilson, Gold Rush: North to Alaska and the Klondike, page 106:
- “Argghh, a booter,” Sally groaned when she sloshed across a puddle too wide to jump.
Synonyms[edit]
- (stepping in a deep puddle): soaker