boots
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boots
- Plural form of boot
- (sports) The sports shoes worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
- (dated) A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes. (takes a singular verb)
- 2001, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, New York: Scribner, ISBN 0-7432-2294-6, page 411:
- The young man with Doyler, who indeed no longer worked at Lee's of Kingstown, but had advanced to a position of boots and bottle-washer at the Russell Hotel adjacent the Green, was looking uneasy. [...] The boots was sure.
- 2001, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, New York: Scribner, ISBN 0-7432-2294-6, page 411:
- (Jamaica, slang, plural only) A condom.[1]
- 1980, Black Uhuru, "Abortion", Black Uhuru (re-released as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1983):
- I said throw away the boots, I want my little youth
- 1980, Black Uhuru, "Abortion", Black Uhuru (re-released as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1983):
Synonyms [edit]
- (condom): see also Wikisaurus:condom.
References [edit]
- ^ Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds, Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language, Around the Way Books (2006), ISBN 0975534254, page 17
Verb [edit]
boots
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of boot.
