Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Wearing jackboots.
- adjective Cruelly and violently oppressive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Wearing jackboots; -- used especially as a metaphor for harshly repressive and militaristic.
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- adjective Wearing a pair of
jackboots .
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Examples
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Have his "jackbooted" ATF thugs burn down all of Tennessee?
Theodore's World 2009
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Under anarchy there would at least no longer be bullshit non-crimes like Failure to Obey a Police Officer a charge which is incomprehensible except as a supposed crime against the supposed authority of the State, and if some rogue security agency went ahead and tried to inflict this kind of jackbooted thuggery on an innocent man like Phil Sano, there would at least be the possibility of an effective recourse and for the violent creeps who attacked him to be held directly, individually accountable by competing agencies or by independent, grassroots alternatives.
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Kevin Terrell, a self-described colonel who founded a group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky and predicts war with "the jackbooted thugs" of Washington within a year, says he has to fend off hotheads who call him a "keyboard commando."
Matt Kane: The Enemy from Within: Why We Cannot Focus Solely on Islamic Terrorism Matt Kane 2010
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LaPierre has made a career of spreading the nonsense that the "jackbooted thugs" are always "lying in the weeds" waiting for the chance to take away everyone's guns.
Dennis A. Henigan: Right Wing Militias and the NRA: Second Amendment Soulmates Dennis A. Henigan 2010
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Liberal democrats are just a bunch of jackbooted thugs that hate every one that does not agree with their far left views of how our country should be ran.
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Kevin Terrell, a self-described colonel who founded a group of "freedom fighters" in Kentucky and predicts war with "the jackbooted thugs" of Washington within a year, says he has to fend off hotheads who call him a "keyboard commando."
Matt Kane: The Enemy from Within: Why We Cannot Focus Solely on Islamic Terrorism Matt Kane 2010
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The Time article quotes a "self-described colonel" in a Kentucky militia, who channels LaPierre's incendiary rhetoric by predicting war with "the jackbooted thugs of Washington."
Dennis A. Henigan: Right Wing Militias and the NRA: Second Amendment Soulmates Dennis A. Henigan 2010
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Don't be so naive about what's in these peoples minds – or try to be patronizing to these jackbooted teabaggers.
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The jackbooted thugs of Brussels were, we were told, going to "kill the internet".
EU cookie laws could cause unwary firms to get their fingers burnt 2011
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If you plan to send the jackbooted thugs to help her understand that she is spreading fishy disinformation, give me a heads up so I can be out of the house.
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