boot A boot is a type of footwear. Most boots mainly cover the foot and the ankle, while some also cover some part of the lower calf. Some boots extend up the leg, sometimes as far as the knee or even the hip. Most boots have a heel that is clearl ...

is a type of footwear. Boot(s) may also refer to:

Businesses

Boot Inn, Chester The Boot Inn is at 17 Eastgate Street and 9 Eastgate Row, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The building consists of a shop occupying a former u ...

, Cheshire, England *

Boots (company) Boots UK Limited (formerly Boots the Chemists Limited) is a British health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain that operates in the United Kingdom. It also operates internationally, including Ireland, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Thailand ...

, 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

Boot, Cumbria Boot is a small village in Eskdale on the western side of the English Lake District. It lies within the civil parish of Eskdale, the unitary authority of Cumberland, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria. The main part of the village lies bes ...

, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England *

Boot Key Boot Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys located adjacent to Key Vaca. Boot Key is within the city limits of Marathon, Florida, United States. The island is largely undeveloped. A draw bridge that once connected the island to Key Vaca w ...

, an island in the Florida Keys *

Boot Lake (Nova Scotia) Boot Lake is a lake of Victoria County, in north-eastern Nova Scotia, Canada. See also *List of lakes in Nova Scotia This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia. Cape Breton Island All Four Counties * Bras d'Or Lake Cape Breton Regional Munici ...

, Canada *

Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts) Boot Pond is a pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts within the Eel River watershed. The pond is located west of South Pond village, northwest of Gunners Exchange Pond and Hoyts Pond, and north of Myles Standish State Forest. The pond is a secondary ...

Boot Rock Boot Rock () is a rock, high, which lies off the southeast side of Candlemas Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted and named by Discovery Investigations The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-b ...

, South Sandwich Islands *

Boots Creek (Manitoba) Boots Creek is a river in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in Northern Manitoba, Canada. It is a right tributary of the Nelson River. See also *List of rivers of Manitoba This is an incomplete list of rivers of Manitoba, a province of Canada. ...

, Canada * "The Boot", an informal name for

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

, due to the country's shape

People with the name

Boot (surname) Boot is both a Dutch-language, Dutch and English language, English metonymic occupational surname. In Dutch, ''boot'' () sounds like and means boat and the name refers to a "boatman". In English the name refers to the maker or seller of boot Boot ...

, a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots *

Boots (nickname) Boots, as a nickname, may refer to: * Boots Adams (1899–1975), American business executive * Boots Anson-Roa (born 1945), Filipino actress, columnist, editor and lecturer * Frederick C. Blesse (1921–2012), American Air Force major general and ...

, a list of people with the nickname *

Boots (musician) Jordan Asher Cruz, known professionally as Boots (stylized as BOOTS), is an American record producer, singer, songwriter, director, and animator. He is best known for his production and songwriting contributions to Beyoncé's self-titled fifth ...

, an American record producer * Gypsy Boots (1914–2004), also known as Boots Bootzin, American fitness pioneer, actor and writer born Robert Bootzin *

Little Boots Victoria Christina Hesketh (born 4 May 1984), known professionally as Little Boots, is an English singer-songwriter and DJ. She was previously a member of the band Dead Disco. Since performing as a solo artist, she has released four albums: ''H ...

, English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Boot, an Old English Sheepdog in ''

The Perishers ''The Perishers'' was a long-running British comic strip about a group of neighbourhood children and a dog. It was printed in the ''Daily Mirror'' as a daily strip and first appeared on 19 October 1959. For most of its life it was written by Mau ...

'', a British cartoon strip * Terry Boot, a member of Dumbledore's Army in the ''Harry Potter'' series *

William Boot William Boot is a fictional journalist who is the protagonist in the 1938 Evelyn Waugh comic novel '' Scoop.'' Character Boot is the young author of a regular column on country life for a London newspaper named the ''Daily Beast''. His affected ...

, 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 ''Animal Kwackers'' was a children's television series produced by ITV Yorkshire, Yorkshire Television and broadcast on Britain's ITV1, ITV from 1975 to 1978. The Animal Kwackers were a four-piece pop band consisting of Rory, a lion; Twang, ...

'' * Boots, the title character of the American comic strip ''

Boots and Her Buddies ''Boots and Her Buddies'' was an American comic strip by Edgar Martin that ran from 1924 to 1968, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title ''Boots''. The character of Boots ...

'', shortened by some newspapers as ''Boots'' * Boots, the hero of the Norwegian fairy tale "

Boots and the Troll A boot is a type of footwear. Most boots mainly cover the foot and the ankle, while some also cover some part of the lower calf. Some boots extend up the human leg, leg, sometimes as far as the knee or even the hip. Most boots have a heel (shoe ...

" * Boots, a monkey on the television series ''

Dora the Explorer ''Dora the Explorer'' is an American media franchise centered on an eponymous animated interactive fourth wall children's television series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner, and produced by Nickelodeon Animation ...

'' * Boots Malone, the title character of the film ''

Boots Malone ''Boots Malone'' is a 1952 American drama film directed by William Dieterle. It stars William Holden as a down-on-his-luck sports agent and Johnny Stewart as a rich runaway who wants to become a jockey. Plot Down on his luck, jockey agent "Boots ...

'' * Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, a main character in the ''

Bruno and Boots ''Macdonald Hall'' is a series of young adult novels by author Gordon Korman. The series was formerly named ''Bruno and Boots''. The series is set in a Canadian boarding school for boys called Macdonald Hall (named for John A. Macdonald, the fi ...

'' children's novel series

Films

* ''Boots'' (film), a 1919 American silent film starring Dorothy Gish and Richard Barthelmess * ''

Das Boot (; ) is a 1981 West Germany, West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann. An Film adaptation, adaptation of Lothar-Günthe ...

("The Boat")'', a 1981 German movie by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name

Music

Labels

Boot Records Boot Records was a Canadian country, bluegrass, and contemporary folk label formed in 1971 in Toronto by Stompin' Tom Connors and his manager, Jury Krytiuk. Early years Originally started as a format for Connors' recordings, Boot shortly after b ...

, 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! ''Boot!'' is an album by The Thing, the trio of saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. The album was recorded in February 2013 and released that year by the band's new, eponymous, label. Record ...

'', a 2013 album by The Thing * ''Boots'', a 2002 album by

Noe Venable Noe Venable (born April 20, 1976) is an experimental folk music, folk/pop singer-songwriter. She has earned a loyal fan base in her native San Francisco, in part through frequently performing in small, intimate venues. Her advocacy of small ve ...

Songs

* "Boots" (The Killers song), a 2010 song by The Killers * "Boots", a 1928 song composed by Peter Dawson aka "J.P. McCall" * "Boots", a song by

Mighty Gabby Anthony Carter (born 30 March 1948), better known as Mighty Gabby or simply Gabby, is a Barbadian calypsonian and folk singer, and a Cultural Ambassador for the island of Barbados. Career Born in Emmerton, Carter was given the nickname "Gabby" ...

* "Boots", a song by Kesha from her 2017 album ''

Rainbow A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky. The rainbow takes the form of a multicoloured circular ...

'' * "Boots", a song by

Hardy Hardy may refer to: People * Hardy (surname) * Hardy (given name) * Hardy (singer), American singer-songwriter Places Antarctica * Mount Hardy, Enderby Land * Hardy Cove, Greenwich Island * Hardy Rocks, Biscoe Islands Australia * Hardy, ...

from his 2020 album '' A Rock'' *"Boot" (ブート ''Būto''), a song by Macintosh Plus from ''

Floral Shoppe is the ninth studio album by the American electronic musician Ramona Andra Langley under the alias Macintosh Plus, released on December 9, 2011, by the independent record label Beer on the Rug. It was one of the first releases of the 2010s m ...

'' * "Das Boot" (song), title theme of the film of the same name * "The Boots", a song by

Gugudan Gugudan (), also stylized as gu9udan or gx9, was a South Korean girl group formed in 2016 by Jellyfish Entertainment and the company's first girl group. The group debuted on June 28, 2016, with their EP ''Act. 1 The Little Mermaid''. The group wa ...

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 ''Teletubbies'' is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on t ...

'' *

Bootleg recording A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. Making and distributing such recordings is known as ''bootlegging''. Recordings may be copied and traded ...

, unauthorized audio or video recording, often abbreviated to "boot" * ''The Boot'' (website), a music blog owned by Townsquare Media

Computing

Boot (software) Boot is a build automation and dependency management tool written primarily in the Clojure programming language. Boot was originally written by Micha Niskin and Alan Dipert as part of the Hoplon web framework. As of May 2015, Boot is developed a ...

, a Clojure build automation tool * /boot/ In Unix-like operating systems, a boot folder is the directory which holds files used in booting the operating system, typically . The usage is standardized within Linux in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Contents The contents are mostly Linu ... directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process *

Booting In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via Computer hardware, hardware such as a physical button on the computer or by a software command. After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit (CPU) h ...

, the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when turned on *

Ping-Pong virus The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988, at the '' Politecnico di Torino'' (Turin Polytechnic University) in Italy Italy, offi ...

, alternatively called "boot"

Roles or professions

* Boot, a recruit undergoing

recruit training Military recruit training, commonly known as basic training or boot camp, refers to the initial instruction of new military personnel. It is a physically and psychologically intensive process, which Resocialization, resocializes its subjects for ...

in the United States Marine Corps or Navy, or an inexperienced marine or sailor * Boot or boots, a servant who acts as a

shoeshiner Shoeshiner or boot polisher is an occupation in which a person cleans and buffs shoes and then applies shoe polish, a waxy paste to give a shiny appearance and a protective coating. They are often known as shoeshine boys because the job was tr ...

, especially in a hotel

Transportation

Boot (car) The trunk (American English) or boot (British English) of a car is the vehicle's main storage or cargo compartment, often a hatch at the rear of the vehicle. It can also be called a tailgate. In Indian English the storage area is known as a ...

, the storage compartment of a car * Boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn

coach Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of Athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Coac ...

, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage *

Deicing boot A deicing boot is a type of ice protection system installed on aircraft surfaces to permit a mechanical deicing in flight. Such boots are generally installed on the leading edges of wings and flight control surfaces, control surfaces (e.g. hori ...

, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems *

Denver boot A wheel clamp, also known as wheel boot, parking boot, or Denver boot, is a device that is designed to prevent motor vehicles from being moved. In its most common form, it consists of a clamp that surrounds a vehicle wheel, designed to preven ...

, also known as a wheel clamp, which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement * Boot, or

Gaiter (vehicle) {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) On a vehicle, a gaiter or boot is a protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean. On motorcycles and bicycles Gaiters are pleated rubber tubes enclosing ...

, a flexible sleeve covering a moving part

Other uses

Boot (medical) An orthopedic boot is used for the treatment of injuries of the foot or ankle. Along with orthopedic casts, leg braces, splints and orthotics, they can immobilize and shift weight bearing to help treat injuries to the foot area. Varieties inc ...

, a protective device worn while an injured foot is healing *

Boot (real estate) Under Section 1031 of the United States Internal Revenue Code (), a taxpayer may defer recognition of capital gains and related federal income tax liability on the exchange of certain types of property, a process known as a 1031 exchange. In 197 ...

, any property received by a taxpayer in an IRC 1031 exchange which is not like-kind to the relinquished property *

Boot (torture) The term boot refers to a family of instruments of torture and interrogation variously designed to cause crushing injuries to the foot and/or leg. The boot has taken many forms in various places and times. Common varieties include the Spanish ...

, a torture device for crushing the human foot *

Boot of beer Beer glassware comprise vessels, today usually made of glass, designed or commonly used for serving and drinking beer. Styles of beer glasses vary in accord with national or regional traditions; legal or customary requirements regarding serving ...

, a form of beer glassware in the shape of a boot * Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects *

Cylinder boot A cylinder () has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes. In elementary geometry, it is considered a prism with a circle as its base. A cylinder may also be defined as an infinite c ...

, a rubber protector for the bottom end of a scuba cylinder * Boot, Old English for

estover Estover is a district in Devon, England, within the Plymouth boundary area. The original hamlet was extensively developed during the 1970s, into what became back then a large housing estate, consisting almost entirely of council houses (construct ...

, an English law term * Boot, the outer shell of a

reed pipe A reed pipe (also referred to as a ''lingual'' pipe) is an organ pipe that is sounded by a vibrating brass strip known as a '' reed''. Air under pressure (referred to as ''wind'') is directed towards the reed, which vibrates at a specific pit ...

in a pipe organ