Boot (disambiguation)

A boot is a type of footwear.

Boot, boots, booting or booted may also refer to:

For vehicles

• 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
• Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems
• A rubber fitting that covers greased moving parts, such as on a vehicle's drive axles or steering column

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 running a Power-On Self Test (POST)
• 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.

Games

• Boot or Durango boot, a sport played with a flying disc

Miscellaneous

• A recruit undergoing recruit training in the United States Marine Corps or Navy or an inexperienced Marine or Sailor
• Boot, a legal compensation, profit or use, hence the phrase to boot, see Estovers
• Boot (real estate), receipt of something of value in addition to the primary consideration, usually in the course of a real estate transaction
• 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 of beer, a form of beer glassware in the shape of a boot
• boot, the outer shell of a reed pipe in a pipe organ
• boot, to kick someone.
• boot, the German and Dutch word for boat
• boot Düsseldorf, the Düsseldorf International Boat Show
• Das Boot ("the boat") a 1981 German movie by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name
• Cylinder boot, a rubber protector for the bottom end of a scuba cylinder
• "Boot" or "boots", in British usage a servant who shines shoes, especially in a hotel
• Boot (real estate), any property received by a taxpayer in an IRC 1031 exchange which is not like-kind to the relinquished property

People and characters

• Boot, a surname in the Netherlands
  • Jacob Boot (1903-1986), Dutch athlete
  • Pat Boot (1914-1947), New Zealand athlete
• William Boot, the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop
• Boot, the name of the Old English Sheepdog in The Perishers, a British cartoon strip.
• Boots, a character in the popular children's television series, Dora the Explorer
• Little Boots, the alias of musician Victoria Hesketh.
• Boots Riley, an American vocalist

Boots

• Boots, a poem by Rudyard Kipling
• Alliance Boots, a British based pharmaceuticals company
  • Boots UK, the high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom

Music

• "Booted" (1952 song), a 1952 R&B song by Roscoe Gordon
• Boots (album), a 1966 album by Nancy Sinatra
• "Boots" (KMFDM song), a 2002 song by KMFDM
• "Boots" (The Killers song), a 2010 song by The Killers
• "Boots", a song by Mighty Gabby
• Boots, a 2002 album by Noe Venable

Distinguish from

• Boötes, a constellation.