boot A boot is a type of footwear. Most boots mainly cover the foot and the ankle, while some also cover some part of the lower calf. Some boots extend up the leg, sometimes as far as the knee or even the hip. Most boots have a heel that is cle ...

is a type of footwear. Boot or Boots may also refer to:

Businesses

Boot Inn, Chester The Boot Inn is at 17 Eastgate Street and 9 Eastgate Row, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The building consists of a shop occupying a former ...

, Cheshire, England * Boots (company), a high-street pharmacy chain and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom * The Boot, Cromer Street, a pub in King's Cross, London

Places

Boot, Cumbria Boot is a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the Lake District of England. It forms part of the Borough of Copeland. There are two roads from which to access the village, one of which is the Hardknott Pass and Wrynose Pass, England's ste ...

, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England *

Boot Key Boot Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys located adjacent to Key Vaca. Boot Key is within the city limits of Marathon, Florida, United States. The island is largely undeveloped. A draw bridge that once connected the island to Key Vaca wa ...

, an island in the Florida Keys *

Boot Lake (Nova Scotia) Boot Lake is a lake of Victoria County, in north-eastern Nova Scotia, Canada. See also *List of lakes in Nova Scotia This is a list of lakes in Nova Scotia. Cape Breton Island All Four Counties * Bras d'Or Lake Cape Breton Regional Municip ...

, Canada *

Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts) Boot Pond is a pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts within the Eel River (Massachusetts), Eel River watershed. The pond is located west of South Pond, Massachusetts, South Pond village, northwest of Gunners Exchange Pond and Hoyts Pond (Massachusetts), ...

Boot Rock Boot Rock () is a rock, high, which lies off the southeast side of Candlemas Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted and named by Discovery Investigations personnel on the ''Discovery II ''Discovery II'', built in 1971, is the se ...

, South Sandwich Islands *

Boots Creek (Manitoba) Boots Creek is a river in the Hudson Bay drainage basin in Northern Manitoba, Canada. It is a right tributary of the Nelson River The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The river ...

, Canada * "The Boot", an informal name for Italy, due to the country's shape

People with the name

Boot (surname) Boot is both a Dutch and English metonymic occupational surname. In Dutch, ''boot'' () sounds like and means boat and the name refers to a "boatman". In English the name refers to the maker or seller of boot Boot * Alexander Boot (born 1948), Rus ...

, a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots *

Boots (nickname) Boots, as a nickname, may refer to: * Boots Adams (1899–1975), American business executive * Boots Anson-Roa (born 1945), Filipino actress, columnist, editor and lecturer * Frederick C. Blesse (1921–2012), American Air Force major general and ...

, a list of people with the nickname * Boots (musician), an American record producer * Boots Riley, American rapper, lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club * Gypsy Boots (1914–2004), also known as Boots Bootzin, American fitness pioneer, actor and writer born Robert Bootzin * Little Boots, English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Boot, an Old English Sheepdog in ''

The Perishers ''The Perishers'' was a long-running British comic strip about a group of neighbourhood children and a dog. It was printed in the ''Daily Mirror'' as a daily strip and first appeared on 19 October 1959. For most of its life it was written by Mau ...

'', a British cartoon strip * Terry Boot, a member of Dumbledore's Army in the ''Harry Potter'' series *

William Boot William Boot is a fictional journalist who is the protagonist in the 1938 Evelyn Waugh comic novel ''Scoop.'' Character Boot is the young author of a regular column on country life for a London newspaper named the ''Daily Beast''. His affected st ...

, the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel ''Scoop'' * Boots, a tiger who sang and played guitar in the ITV children's series '' Animal Kwackers'' * Boots, the title character of the American comic strip '' Boots and Her Buddies'', shortened by some newspapers as ''Boots'' * Boots, the hero of the Norwegian fairy tale " Boots and the Troll" * Boots, a monkey on the television series '' Dora the Explorer'' * Boots Malone, the title character of the film ''

Boots Malone ''Boots Malone'' is a 1952 American drama film directed by William Dieterle. It stars William Holden as a down-on-his-luck sports agent and Johnny Stewart as a rich runaway who wants to become a jockey. Plot Down on his luck, jockey agent "Boot ...

'' * Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, a main character in the ''

Bruno and Boots ''Macdonald Hall'' is the name of a series of young adult novels by author Gordon Korman. The series was formerly named ''Bruno and Boots''. The series is set in a Canadian boarding school for boys called Macdonald Hall (named for John A. Mac ...

'' children's novel series

Films

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

Music

Labels

Boot Records Boot Records was a Canadian country, bluegrass, and contemporary folk label formed in 1971 in Toronto by Stompin' Tom Connors and his manager, Jury Krytiuk. Early years Originally started as a format for Connors' recordings, Boot shortly after b ...

, a former Canadian country, bluegrass and contemporary folk label formed in 1971

Albums and EPs

* ''Boots'' (album), a 1966 album by Nancy Sinatra * "Boots" (EP), a 2002 EP by industrial music band KMFDM with a cover of the Nancy Sinatra song * ''

Boot! ''Boot!'' is an album by The Thing, the trio of saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. The album was recorded in February 2013 and released that year by the band's new, eponymous, label. Record ...

'', a 2013 album by The Thing * ''Boots'', a 2002 album by

Noe Venable Noe Venable (born April 20, 1976 in San Francisco, California) is an experimental folk/pop singer-songwriter. She has earned a loyal fan base in her native San Francisco, in part through frequently performing in small, intimate venues. Her advo ...

Songs

* "Boots" (The Killers song), a 2010 song by The Killers * "Boots", a 1928 song composed by Peter Dawson aka "J.P. McCall" * "Boots", a song by

Mighty Gabby Anthony Carter (born 30 March 1948), better known as Mighty Gabby or simply Gabby, is a Barbadian calypsonian and folk singer, and a Cultural Ambassador for the island of Barbados. Career Born in Emmerton, Carter was given the nickname "Gabby ...

* "Boots", a song by

Hardy Hardy may refer to: People * Hardy (surname) * Hardy (given name) * Hardy (singer), American singer-songwriter Places Antarctica * Mount Hardy, Enderby Land * Hardy Cove, Greenwich Island * Hardy Rocks, Biscoe Islands Australia * Hardy, Sout ...

from his 2020 album ''

A Rock ''A Rock'' (stylized in all caps) is the debut album of American country music singer Hardy. It was released on September 4, 2020, via Big Loud Records. Content Joey Moi and Derek Wells produced the entire album, with co-production from David G ...

'' *"Boot" (ブート ''Būto''), a song by Macintosh Plus from ''

Floral Shoppe is the ninth studio album by the American electronic musician Vektroid under the alias Macintosh Plus, released on December 9, 2011 by the independent record label Beer on the Rug. It is her ninth full-length album and was one of the first rel ...

'' * "Das Boot" (song), title theme of the film of the same name

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Boot'' (magazine), an American computer magazine now known as ''Maximum PC'' * "Boots" (poem), by Rudyard Kipling (1903) * "Boots", an episode of the television series '' Teletubbies'' *

Bootleg recording A bootleg recording is an audio or video recording of a performance not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. Making and distributing such recordings is known as ''bootlegging''. Recordings may be copied and traded ...

, unauthorized audio or video recording, often abbreviated to "boot" * ''The Boot'' (website), a music blog owned by Townsquare Media

Computing

* Boot (software), a Clojure build automation tool * /boot/ In Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems, the directory holds files used in booting the operating system. The usage is standardized in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Contents The contents are mostly Linux kernel files or boot loader ... directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process *

Booting In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button or by a software command. After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit (CPU) has no software in its main memory, so som ...

, the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when turned on * Ping-Pong virus, alternatively called "boot"

Roles or professions

* Boot, a recruit undergoing recruit training in the United States Marine Corps or Navy, or an inexperienced marine or sailor * Boot or boots, a servant who acts as a shoeshiner, especially in a hotel

Transportation

Boot (car) The trunk (North American English) or boot (British English) of a car is the vehicle's main storage or cargo compartment, often a hatch at the rear of the vehicle. It is also called a tailgate. In Indian English the storage area is known as ...

, the storage compartment of a car * Boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn

coach Coach may refer to: Guidance/instruction * Coach (sport), a director of athletes' training and activities * Coaching, the practice of guiding an individual through a process ** Acting coach, a teacher who trains performers Transportation * Co ...

, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage *

Deicing boot A deicing boot is a type of ice protection system installed on aircraft surfaces to permit a mechanical deicing in flight. Such boots are generally installed on the leading edges of wings and control surfaces (e.g. horizontal and vertical sta ...

, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems *

Denver boot A wheel clamp, also known as wheel boot, parking boot, or Denver boot, is a device that is designed to prevent motor vehicles from being moved. In its most common form, it consists of a clamp that surrounds a vehicle wheel, designed to preven ...

, also known as a wheel clamp, which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement

Other uses

Boot (medical) A boot is a medical device worn during treatment and recovery of a variety of foot injuries. Along with orthopedic casts, leg braces, splints and orthotic Orthotics ( el, Ορθός, translit=ortho, lit=to straighten, to align) is a medical sp ...

, a protective device worn while an injured foot is healing *

Boot (real estate) Under Section 1031 of the United States Internal Revenue Code (), a taxpayer may defer recognition of capital gains and related federal income tax liability on the exchange of certain types of property, a process known as a 1031 exchange. In 1979 ...

, 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 Beer glassware comprise vessels made of glass, designed or commonly used for serving and drinking beer. Styles of glassware vary in accord with national or regional traditions; legal or customary requirements regarding serving measures and fill ...

, a form of beer glassware in the shape of a boot * Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects *

Cylinder boot A diving cylinder or diving gas cylinder is a gas cylinder used to store and transport high pressure gas used in diving operations. This may be breathing gas used with a scuba set, in which case the cylinder may also be referred to as a scub ...

, a rubber protector for the bottom end of a scuba cylinder * Boot, Old English for

estover Estover is a district in Devon, England, within the Plymouth boundary area. The original hamlet was extensively developed during the 1970s, into what became back then a large housing estate, consisting almost entirely of council houses (construc ...

, an English law term * Boot, the outer shell of a reed pipe in a pipe organ