• Boots

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /buːts/
    • Rhymes: -uːts

    Noun

    plural

    1. Plural of boot
    2. (sports) The sports shoes worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
    3. (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.
    4. (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

    Synonyms

    • (condom) see also .

    Verb

    1. boots

      (third-person singular of boot)

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