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

Businesses

* Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England *

Boots (company) Boots UK Limited (formerly Boots the Chemists), trading as Boots, is a British health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom and other countries and territories including Ireland, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Thailand a ...

, a high-street pharmacy chain and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom *

The Boot, Cromer Street Cromer Street is a road in St Pancras, London in central London, England. It starts in the west at Judd Street, then goes east, ending at Gray's Inn Road. It gave access from Gray's Inn Road to Greenland Place and a bowling green. History ...

, 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 stee ...

, 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 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 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), a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots * Boots (nickname), a list of people with the nickname *

Boots (musician) Jordan Asher Cruz, better known as Boots (stylized as BOOTS), is an American record producer, singer, rapper, director, animator and songwriter. He first gained recognition in 2013 for his significant contributions to American singer-songwrite ...

, 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 Gypsy Boots (August 19, 1915 – August 8, 2004), born Robert Bootzin (also known as Boots Bootzin), was an American fitness pioneer, actor and writer. He is credited with laying the foundation for the acceptance by mainstream America of "alter ...

(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 releas ...

, 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 M ...

'', 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 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 s ...

, 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 ''Animal Kwackers'' was a popular children's television series produced by ITV Yorkshire, Yorkshire Television and broadcast on United Kingdom, Britain's ITV1, ITV in the 1970s. The Animal Kwackers were a four-piece pop band consisting of Ror ...

'' * 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 "About Ash Lad, Who Stole the Troll's Silver Ducks, Coverlet, and Golden Harp" (Dano-Norwegian: ) is a Norwegian folktale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in '' Norwegian Folktales'' (''Norske Folkeeventyr'' No. 1), transl ...

" * 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 "Boot ...

'' * Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, a main character in the '' Bruno and Boots'' 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, 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 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 * "Boots", a song by Hardy 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, unauthorized audio or video recording, often abbreviated to "boot" * ''The Boot'' (website), a music blog owned by Townsquare Media

Computing

Boot (software) Boot is a build automation and dependency management tool written primarily in the Clojure programming language. Boot was originally written by Micha Niskin and Alan Dipert as part of the Hoplon web framework. As of May 2015, Boot is developed a ...

, 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, 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 * 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 st ...

, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems * Denver boot, 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) The term boot refers to a family of instruments of torture and interrogation variously designed to cause crushing injuries to the foot and/or leg. The boot has taken many forms in various places and times. Common varieties include the Spanish ...

, 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 scu ...

, 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 A reed pipe (also referred to as a ''lingual'' pipe) is an organ pipe that is sounded by a vibrating brass strip known as a ''reed''. Air under pressure (referred to as ''wind'') is directed towards the reed, which vibrates at a specific pitc ...

in a pipe organ