(computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

(archaic, dialectal) Remedy, amends. / (uncountable) Profit, plunder.

(informal) A bootleg recording.

simple past tense and past participle of boot

Wearing a boot or boots.

present participle of boot

A kicking, as with a booted foot. / (computing) The act by which a computer is booted. / (obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. / (MLE, criminal slang) Homicide by gunfire.

As much as a boot will hold.

plural of booting

Initialism of Build–own–operate–transfer.