Meaning of Boots | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a surname
2. A condom.
   Jamaica, plural, plural-only, slang
3. A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
   dated
4. genitive singular of Boot
5. The ship in a fleet having the most junior captain.
   UK, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“I said throw away the boots, I want my little youth”

“He gave the boots at the Coffee Palace a shilling when that official found his key for him, and having put his boots carefully in the bag with his shirts, and placed his socks outside to be cleaned for the morning, he went to bed in a state of great mental exultation, and slept soundly.”

“If you can get the Boots at the Crown to talk, he will tell you a story which he thinks is amusing, about how he was knocked up at two in the morning by a gentleman who arrived in a car which he had driven in his underclothes.”

“The old beggar ran up and down in his tattered toga, acting as both boots [translating Hausknecht] and waiter.”

“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.”

“[…] he sent on the 22d. Vice-Admiral Rook into it, with several Men of War and Fire-Ships, besides the Boots of the Fleet, to endeavour to destroy them: […]”

“The captain of Hotspur was Lieutenant T. Herrick, the youngest commanding officer in all the destroyers, and says Hotspur was the “boots” of the fleet! Being the junior ship, she was given jobs no-one wanted.”

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