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booting en · NOUN

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Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A kicking, as with a booted foot.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act by which a computer is booted.
    • […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS. 1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101:
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
    • Thou, Linus, that louest still to be promoting, Because I sport, about King Henries marriage: Think' st this will proue a matter worth the carriage. But let it alone, Lynus, it is no booting. 1618, John Harrington, The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington […] :
  4. (Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable) Homicide by gunfire.
    • Just got bail, three shootings I ain’t gotta call up Pacman To go up to country to do some bootings (bu-bu) Tryna aim for your head Pronounce man dead, pull up and suit him 2019 May 16, “P4DP”, in Digga D (lyrics), Double Tap Diaries EP:
    • C4 run man through the alley Get a man down with the swammy Get a man down with the whammy Boot couple niggas on the road No face no case with the bally (booting) 2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics):

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bootings Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

chinging

Deriveds

multibooting · nonbooting

booting en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of boot
    form of boot