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- noun Plural form of
jackboot .
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Examples
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And moreover with the jackboots are our hosen covered well.
The Lay of the Cid ca. 1043-1099 Cid 1071
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"small potatoes" and mocking charges that the men were "armed" and wearing "jackboots" - one carried a billy club, and their boots, Thernstrom noted, "were no different from a pair my husband owns."
News & Politics 2010
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'jackboots' went after 'Joe the Plumber' for asking the 'one' a simple question.
Atlas Shrugs 2008
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Homeland Security) has yet another excuse to invade our malls with TSA jackboots which is in the works already).
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On Friday we told him: it appears that you have illustrated an item on your blog with a photo of Germans, some wearing jackboots, listening admiringly to Hitler.
Diary Hugh Muir 2010
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Or possibly even jackboots with goldfish in the heels?
Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee. 2010
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Yet the Friedmans and Maxes of the world are silent on India and Brazil, they only pop boners when they think of jackboots crushing skulls.
Matthew Yglesias » Predictions Are Hard, Especially About the Future 2010
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Think of it as a loving spoonful of bitter medicine stomped directly into your skull with a pair of armored jackboots.
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They are shaking it their jackboots about the next one.
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Electronic Arts, 69p, iPad £1.99Turning tower defence on its head, this puts you in the jackboots of the invader, strategically herding your units down maze-like streets to attack various elements of your enemy's war machine while doing your best to ration power ups and avoid being vaporised by turrets lining every road.
brtom commented on the word jackboots
"In amazon costume, hard hat, jackboots cockspurred, vermilion waistcoat, fawn musketeer gauntlets with braided drums, long train held up and hunting crop with which she strikes her welt constantly."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
February 8, 2007