jack booted

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See also: jackbooted and jack-booted

English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. Alternative form of jackbooted
    • 1996, Dorothy A. Rose, Poisoning the Airwaves: The Extremist Message of Hate on Shortwave Radio, page 6:
      The MUD PEOPLE ARE JACK BOOTED TYRANTS
    • 2002, Phil N. Good, Timescanner: The Future Has Been Postponed, page 92:
      Two days later the mother of one of the little lads, accompanied by a NOCLU lawyer, filed charges against the cruel jack booted police thug.
    • 2009, Robert Richardson, chapter 3, in The Silver Cane, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 23:
      Standing in the middle of the courtyard, some twenty paces from him were three silent ominous figures in green paramilitary style uniforms, jack booted and wearing peaked caps on which was an undefined insignia.

Verb[edit]

jack booted

  1. simple past and past participle of jack boot

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