jack-booted

See also: jackbooted and jack booted

English

Adjective

jack-booted (comparative more jack-booted, superlative most jack-booted)

1. Alternative form of jackbooted
   • 1939, Nicholas Blake [pseudonym; Cecil Day-Lewis], “The Episode of the Amorous Cricketer”, in The Smiler with the Knife, London: Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN:

     She seemed to feel silent, jack-booted watchers standing outside frightened houses, figures kneeling to scrub the pavements, children coldly excluded from their familiar playgrounds, the informer's whisper in the café, fear and suspicion like rheumatism fastening upon the easy intercourse of friends—all the vicious little tricks of modern tyranny.

   • 1948, Robert Alfred, John Walling, The Late Unlamented, page 170:

     He wouldn't tell me — blew up about jack-booted gestapos trampling over the leddies' rooms, and took himself off in a black temper.

   • 1986, Darwin Porter, Dollarwise Guide to Germany, page 324:

     The Zeppelinfeld arena, in which all those jack-booted men goose-stepped, is an athletic field for American soldiers and also is the setting for local rock festivals.

Verb

jack-booted

1. simple past and past participle of jack-boot

Anagrams

• bootjacked