Boot (disambiguation)

A boot is a type of footwear.

Boot or Boots may also refer to:

Businesses

  • Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England
  • Boots (company), a high-street pharmacy chain and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom
  • The Boot, Cromer Street, a pub in King's Cross, London

Places

People with the name

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Boot, the name of the Old English Sheepdog in The Perishers, a British cartoon strip
  • Terry Boot, a member of Dumbledore's Army in the Harry Potter series
  • William Boot, the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop
  • Boots, a tiger who sang and played guitar in the ITV children's series Animal Kwackers
  • Boots, the title character of the American comic strip Boots and Her Buddies, shortened by some newspapers as Boots
  • Boots, the hero of the Norwegian fairy tale "Boots and the Troll"
  • Boots, a monkey on the television series Dora the Explorer
  • Boots Malone, the title character of the film Boots Malone
  • Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, a main character in the Bruno and Boots children's novel series

Films

  • Boots (film), a 1919 American silent film starring Dorothy Gish and Richard Barthelmess
  • Das Boot ("The Boat"), a 1981 German movie by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name

Music

Labels

  • Boot Records, a former Canadian country, bluegrass and contemporary folk label formed in 1971

Albums and EPs

  • Boots (album), a 1966 album by Nancy Sinatra
  • "Boots" (EP), a 2002 EP by industrial music band KMFDM with a cover of the Nancy Sinatra song
  • Boot!, a 2013 album by The Thing
  • Boots, a 2002 album by Noe Venable

Songs

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Boot (magazine), an American computer magazine now known as Maximum PC
  • "Boots" (poem), by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
  • "Boots", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
  • Bootleg recording, unauthorized audio or video recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
  • The Boot (website), a music blog owned by Townsquare Media

Computing

  • Boot (software), a Clojure build automation tool
  • /boot/ directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
  • Booting, the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when turned on
  • Ping-Pong virus, alternatively called "boot"

Roles or professions

  • Boot, a recruit undergoing recruit training in the United States Marine Corps or Navy, or an inexperienced marine or sailor
  • Boot or boots, a servant who acts as a shoeshiner, especially in a hotel

Transportation

  • Boot (car), the storage compartment of a car
  • Boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn coach, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage
  • Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems
  • Denver boot, also known as a wheel clamp, which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement

Other uses

  • Boot (medical), a protective device worn while an injured foot is healing
  • Boot (real estate), any property received by a taxpayer in an IRC 1031 exchange which is not like-kind to the relinquished property
  • Boot (torture), a torture device for crushing the human foot
  • Boot, a legal compensation, profit, or use, hence the phrase to boot (see estovers)
  • Boot, the outer shell of a reed pipe in a pipe organ
  • Boot Düsseldorf, boat show
  • Boot of beer, a form of beer glassware in the shape of a boot
  • Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects
  • Cylinder boot, a rubber protector for the bottom end of a scuba cylinder

See also

  • Bhoot (disambiguation)
  • "Booted" (song), a 1952 R&B song by Roscoe Gordon
  • Boötes, a constellation of stars
  • "Boots, Boots, Boots", an episode of the British TV series Dad's Army
  • Boots! Boots!, a 1934 British comedy film
  • Caligula (12–41), nickname (Latin for "little [soldier's] boot") of Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
  • Little Boots, stage name of English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ Victoria Christina Hesketh (born 1984)
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