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 c ...

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

Businesses

* Boot Inn, Chester, 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, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England * Boot Key, an island in the Florida Keys * Boot Lake (Nova Scotia), Canada * Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts) * Boot Rock, 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. See also *List of rivers of Manitoba This is an incomplete list of rivers of Manitoba, a province of Canad ...

, Canada * "The Boot", an informal name for

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

, 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), Ru ...

, 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 Raymond Lawrence "Boots" Riley (born April 1, 1971), is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist activist. He is the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He made his feature-film directorial ...

, 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 Victoria Christina Hesketh (born 4 May 1984), better known by her stage name Little Boots, is an English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ. She was previously a member of the band Dead Disco. Since performing as a solo artist she has release ...

, 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 Ma ...

'', a British cartoon strip * Terry Boot, a member of

Dumbledore's Army Dumbledore's Army (or D.A. for short) is a fictional student organisation in J. K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' series that is founded by the main characters, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, to stand up against the regime of Hogwa ...

in the ''Harry Potter'' series * William Boot, 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 ''Boots and Her Buddies'' was an American comic strip by Edgar Martin that ran from 1924 to 1968, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Some newspapers presented the strip under the shortened title ''Boots''. The character of Boots ...

'', 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 ''Dora the Explorer'' is an American children's animated television series and multimedia franchise created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Eric Weiner that premiered on Nickelodeon on August 14, 2000, went on hiatus on June 5, 20 ...

'' * 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 "Boots ...

'' * 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. Macd ...

'' children's novel series

Films

* ''Boots'' (film), a 1919 American silent film starring Dorothy Gish and Richard Barthelmess * ''

Das Boot ''Das Boot'' (, English: "The Boat") is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as ...

("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 be ...

, 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!'', 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 adv ...

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'' *"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 ...

'' * "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 ''Teletubbies'' is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on t ...

'' *

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 trade ...

, 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 f ... directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process *

Booting In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via Computer hardware, 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 ma ...

, the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when turned on *

Ping-Pong virus The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988, at the '' Politecnico di Torino'' (Turin Polytechnic University) in Italy. It was likely the ...

, alternatively called "boot"

Roles or professions

* Boot, a recruit undergoing

recruit training Military recruit training, commonly known as basic training or boot camp, refers to the initial instruction of new military personnel. It is a physically and psychologically intensive process, which resocializes its subjects for the unique deman ...

in the United States Marine Corps or Navy, or an inexperienced marine or sailor * Boot or boots, a servant who acts as a

shoeshiner Shoeshiner or boot polisher is an occupation in which a person cleans and buffs shoes and then applies a waxy paste to give a shiny appearance and a protective coating. They are often known as shoeshine boys because the job was traditionally d ...

, especially in a hotel

Transportation

* Boot (car), 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 * Coac ...

, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage * Deicing boot, 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 protective device worn while an injured foot is healing * 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 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, an English law term * Boot, the outer shell of a reed pipe in a pipe organ