booting

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

booting

1. present participle and gerund of boot

Noun

booting (countable and uncountable, plural bootings)

1. A kicking, as with a booted foot.
2. (computing) The act by which a computer is booted.
   • 1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101:

     […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.

3. (obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
   • 1618, John Harrington, The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington […] :

     Thou, Linus, that louest still to be promoting,
     Because I sport, about King Henries marriage:
     Think' st this will proue a matter worth the carriage.
     But let it alone, Lynus, it is no booting.

4. (MLE, criminal slang) Homicide by gunfire.

   Coordinate term: chinging

   • 2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics):

     C4 run man through the alley
     Get a man down with the swammy
     Get a man down with the whammy
     Boot couple niggas on the road
     No face no case with the bally (booting)

   • 2019 May 16, “P4DP”, in Digga D (lyrics), Double Tap Diaries EP:

     Just got bail, three shootings
     I ain’t gotta call up Pacman
     To go up to country to do some bootings (bu-bu)
     Tryna aim for your head
     Pronounce man dead, pull up and suit him

Derived terms

• multibooting
• nonbooting

 

Translations

in computing — see boot

Anagrams

• tobogin