Definitions
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- noun as much as a
boot will hold
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's nothing like getting bundled up at 7 AM to go clean the car off and getting a bootful of snow.
When Gangsters Go "PC" Jen 2008
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You favour either Holden or Ford - or a souped-up WRX with new kit and a bootful of subwoofer.
July 11th, 2005 curufea 2005
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After which Lewisham essayed to gather her a marsh mallow at the peril, as it was judged, of his life, and gained it together with a bootful of water.
Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004
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"If you are, I hope you realize that your life isn't worth a bootful of warm piss — as the cowpokes would say in my old hometown of Phoenix, Arizona."
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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At length, the girl dropped her boot with a sigh that was half a sob: "I can't lift another bootful," she murmured; "my shoulders and arms ache so -- and I feel -- faint."
Prairie Flowers 1921
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• With spring in full swing, it's easy to come home from garden centres and nurseries with a car bootful of herbaceous perennials to squeeze into borders.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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His face looked like it always did back in Pennsylvania when we had to walk across the frozen puddles in the apartment-complex parking lot, never knowing when we’d break through the ice and get a bootful of muddy water.
The House on the Gulf Margaret Peterson Haddix 2004
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His face looked like it always did back in Pennsylvania when we had to walk across the frozen puddles in the apartment-complex parking lot, never knowing when we’d break through the ice and get a bootful of muddy water.
The House on the Gulf Margaret Peterson Haddix 2004
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His face looked like it always did back in Pennsylvania when we had to walk across the frozen puddles in the apartment-complex parking lot, never knowing when we’d break through the ice and get a bootful of muddy water.
The House on the Gulf Margaret Peterson Haddix 2004
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His face looked like it always did back in Pennsylvania when we had to walk across the frozen puddles in the apartment-complex parking lot, never knowing when we’d break through the ice and get a bootful of muddy water.
The House on the Gulf Margaret Peterson Haddix 2004
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