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- noun Plural form of
bootheel .
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Examples
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From behind and to the left she heard the flat smack of running shoes and the clack of bootheels.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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From behind and to the left she heard the flat smack of running shoes and the clack of bootheels.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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A deballed eunuch that slathers at his leftists masters bootheels.
"I don’t know why anyone would be so angry. We’re always helping people. It’s just a great place to be." Ann Althouse 2009
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No. There is nothing whatsoever at stake in the wording of the White House card, or the name of a school vacation, except the fanatics 'ability to grind beneath their bootheels anyone who believes differently, to compel conformity with their official version of reality.
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All he had to do to achieve this was to walk along the carefully dotted line being painted in front of his own wandering bootheels.
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All he had to do to achieve this was to walk along the carefully dotted line being painted in front of his own wandering bootheels.
Archive 2007-02-18 2007
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Enough plastic explosive had been packed into his hollowed-out bootheels to blow up the plane.
June 2007 2007
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They GRIND values under their elephantine bootheels.
Think Progress » Don’t Believe the Spin: White House Caved to Right-Wing 2005
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My point, these are the kind of psychotic men under whose bootheels-on-our-heads leadership we have to survive.
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself The Daily Growler 2006
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It's all you can see of her at the moment, that soft black cloth pouring down over the bars of the steel cage, bootheels kicking against metal, her legs swinging slightly in time to the song she sings beneath her breath.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2006
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