unboot

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ boot.

Verb

unboot (third-person singular simple present unboots, present participle unbooting, simple past and past participle unbooted)

1. (transitive) To take off the boots from.
2. (transitive) To remove a wheel clamp from
   • 2009, Charles Allen Gramlich, Write with Fire: Thoughts on the Craft of Writing - Page 100:

     After waiting nearly an hour for the campus police to unboot my car, I get home from work to find that UPS has delivered the new monitor for my computer.

3. (computing) To cause a component to be unbootable.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unboot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Bouton, bouton