jack-booted

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“She seemed to feel⟳ silent, jack-booted watchers standing outside frightened houses, figures kneeling to scrub the pavements, children coldly excluded from their familiar playgrounds, the informer's whisper⟳ in the café, fear and suspicion like⟳ rheumatism fastening upon the easy intercourse of friends—all the vicious little tricks of modern tyranny.”

“He wouldn't tell⟳ me — blew up about jack-booted gestapos trampling over the leddies' rooms, and took himself off in a black temper.”

“The Zeppelinfeld arena, in which all those jack-booted men goose-stepped, is an athletic field for American soldiers and also is the setting for local rock festivals.”

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