boots

See also: Boots

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːts/

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• Rhymes: -uːts

Noun

boots

1. plural of boot
2. (Jamaica, slang, plural only) A condom.
   • 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

Synonyms

• (condom): see also Thesaurus:condom.

Noun

boots (plural bootses)

1. (dated) A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
   • 2001, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, 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.

Verb

boots

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of boot

Anagrams

• boost, botos