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fill one's boots en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (informal) To eat heartily.
    • Famine might come back, so fill your boots. 2012, Aubrey Malone, The Mammoth Book of Irish Humour:
  2. (idiomatic) To perform at a high level in one's official role.
    • Rashford added insult to injury as he drilled through the legs of Ward, with England firmly in the mood to fill their boots against a ragged Wales. 2022 November 29, Ian Mitchelmore, “Wales put out of World Cup misery by England as sobering tournament must signal changing of the guard”, in WalesOnline:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
fills one's boots Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
filled one's boots Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
filled one's boots Tense=Past lexicographic
filling one's boots Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

feast one's eyes · fill someone's boots