Boot (disambiguation)

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A boot is a type of footwear.

Boot or boots may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Das Boot ("The Boat"), a 1981 German movie by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name
• Boots (film), a 1919 American silent film starring Dorothy Gish and Richard Barthelmess
• "Boots", an episode of the television series Teletubbies

Music

• Boot Records, a former Canadian country, bluegrass and contemporary folk label formed in 1971
• Boots Riley, American rapper, lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club
• Boots (musician), an American record producer
• Boots (album), a 1966 album by Nancy Sinatra
• Boots, a 2002 album by Noe Venable
• Boot!, a 2013 album by The Thing
• "Boots" (EP), a 2002 EP by industrial music band KMFDM with a cover of the Nancy Sinatra song
• "Boots", a 1928 song composed by Peter Dawson aka "J.P. McCall"
• "Boots" (The Killers song), a 2010 song by The Killers
• "Boots", a song by Mighty Gabby
• "Das Boot" (song), title theme of the film of the same name

Fictional characters

• William Boot, the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop
• Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, a main character in the Bruno and Boots children's novel series
• the hero of the Norwegian fairy tale Boots and the Troll
• Boot, the name of the Old English Sheepdog in The Perishers, a British cartoon strip
• the title character of the American comic strip Boots and Her Buddies, shortened by some newspapers as Boots
• Boots, a character from the television series Dora the Explorer
• Boots, a tiger who sang and played guitar in the ITV children's series Animal Kwackers
• the title character of the film Boots Malone
• Terry Boot, a member of Dumbledore's Army in the Harry Potter series

Other

• "Boots" (poem), by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
• Bootleg recording, unauthorized audio or video recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
• The Boot (website), a music blog owned by Townsquare Media

Businesses

• Boots UK, a high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom
• Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England
• The Boot, Cromer Street, a pub in King's Cross, London

Computing

• Booting, the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when turned on
• /boot/ directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
• Boot (magazine), an American computer magazine now known as Maximum PC
• Ping-Pong virus, alternatively called "boot"
• Boot (software), a Clojure build automation tool

People

• Boot (surname), a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots
• Boots (nickname), a list of people whose nickname is Boots

Places

• Boot, Cumbria, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England
• Boot Lake (Nova Scotia), Canada
• Boots Creek (Manitoba), Canada
• Boot Key, an island in the Florida Keys
• Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
• Boot Rock, South Sandwich Islands
• "The Boot", an informal name for Italy, due to the country's shape

Transportation

• Boot (car), the storage compartment of a car
• Denver boot, also known as a wheel clamp, which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement
• Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems
• Boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn coach, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage

Other uses

• Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects
• Boot (real estate), any property received by a taxpayer in an IRC 1031 exchange which is not like-kind to the relinquished property
• Boot (torture), a torture device for crushing the human foot
• Boot of beer, a form of beer glassware in the shape of a boot
• Cylinder boot, a rubber protector for the bottom end of a scuba cylinder
• Boot (medical), a protective device worn while an injured foot is healing
• Boot, a legal compensation, profit or use, hence the phrase to boot, see estovers
• Boot, a recruit undergoing recruit training in the United States Marine Corps or Navy or an inexperienced marine or sailor
• Boot, the outer shell of a reed pipe in a pipe organ
• Boot or boots, a servant who acts as a shoeshiner, especially in a hotel

See also

• Boots! Boots!, a 1934 British comedy film
• "Boots, Boots, Boots", an episode of the British TV series Dad's Army
• Caligula (12–41), nickname (Latin for "little [soldier's] boot") of Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
• Little Boots, stage name of English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ Victoria Christina Hesketh (born 1984)
• "Booted" (song), a 1952 R&B song by Roscoe Gordon
• Boötes, a constellation of stars
• Bhoot (disambiguation)