Boot may refer to:

• Boot, a type of shoe that covers the foot and ankle, and often the shins of the leg
  • Derived from this meaning, to "boot" can mean:
    • to kick something or someone
    • to evict
    • to be terminated from a place of employment
    • to punish
• Car boot, in British and Australian English, the compartment of a car in which luggage and other cargo is stored (in American English, the trunk). Hence a Car boot sale for the sale of items from car boots.
• Car boot (tonneau cover), used for concealing a retracted convertible top.
• boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn coach, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage.
• A wheel clamp, also known as a Denver boot, which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement.
• A recruit undergoing recruit training in the United States Marine Corps or Navy or an inexperienced Marine or Sailor.
• Bote, a legal compensation, profit or use, hence the phrase to boot
• Boot (real estate), receipt of something of value, especially in the course of a 1031 exchange
• Boot, Cumbria, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the Lake District of England
• Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects
• Bootleg recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
• boot, the outer shell of a Reed pipe in a pipe organ.
• boot, to vomit, especially after binge drinking (slang)
• boot, the German and Dutch word for boat
• Das Boot a 1981 film by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name
• Boot, a last name in the Netherlands
  • Jacob Boot (1903-1986), Dutch athlete
• William Boot, the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop

Computing

• Bootstrapping, any process where a simple system activates a more complicated system, used in computing, linguistics, physics, biology, electronics, statistics, and finance
• Booting, the operations required to place a computer into its normal operating configuration after power is supplied to the hardware
• the /boot directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
• boot, an American computer magazine now known as Maximum PC
• boot, an alternative name for the ping-pong virus
• boot, or booting, to eject someone from a chatroom.
• Boot camp, a program on Mac OS X v10.5 used to run Windows XP/Vista.

Devices

• Boot (torture), various torture devices applied to the feet or legs
• Horse boot, veterinary devices for treatment of the feet or legs of horses
• Denver boot, a wheel clamp used to immobilize a vehicle
• Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems.

Boots

• Boots, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, who served in the British Army in Burma
• Alliance Boots, a British based pharmaceuticals company
  • Boots Group, the high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom
• One of at least five different musical releases (albums and singles):
  • "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
  • "Boots (KMFDM)"
• Boots (cigarette), a brand of cigarette in Mexico
• Boots (bishop), the youngest bishop of the House of Lords, whose duty it is to read prayers.
• Boots (servant), a junior household servant whose task was the cleaning and polishing of boots and shoes (compare bootboy)
• Boots, the talking monkey on the children's television series, Dora the Explorer

See also

• Boötes, a constellation.

da:Bov de:Boot (Begriffsklärung) fr:Boot (homonymie) nl:Boot