Meaning of Jackboot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
2. The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
   broadly, informal

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Examples

“On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding, a pawnbroker’s ticket, a pair of ruffles, a very little muff, an immense broadsword, a Wycherley comb, a jackboot, and an old plumed hat; […]”

“There was a wonderful variety of costume to be seen and studied among the persons around me, […] other soldiers in helmets and jackboots; French officers of various uniform; monks and priests; attendants, in old-fashioned and gorgeous livery; […] so that, in any other country, the scene might have been taken for a fancy ball.”

“The coat itself, a long one of some fuzzy material, with huge side pockets into which the man's hands were plunged, reached to the cavernous tops of jackboots where the nether ends of his trousers were stowed away.”

“That country has been under the jackboot of the military for years.”

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