Noun
plural
- Plural of boot
- (sports) The sports shoes worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
- (dated) A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes. takes a singular verb
- The young man with Doyler, who indeed no longer worked at Lee's of Kingstown, but had advanced to a position of boots and bottle-washer at the Russell Hotel adjacent the Green, was looking uneasy. ... The boots was sure.
- (Jamaica, slang, plurale tantum) A condom.
Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds,
Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language, Around the Way Books (2006), ISBN 0975534254,
page 17- 1980, Black Uhuru, "Abortion", Black Uhuru (re-released as in 1983):I said throw away the boots, I want my little youth