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get the boot en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To be dismissed from employment.
    • "Put it down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag." "And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return," said Lord John. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
    • Tony Parsons has claimed that he quit before he "got the boot" from the Daily Mirror, after former colleagues expressed their anger over remarks that he made suggesting he had defected to the Sun because he needed to support his family. 2013 September 16, Lisa O'Carroll, quoting Tony Parsons, “Tony Parsons: I quit the Mirror before I got the boot”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
  2. (idiomatic) To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gets the boot Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
got the boot Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got the boot Tense=Past lexicographic
gotten the boot Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
getting the boot Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

order of the boot

Synonyms

get the chop · get the elbow · get the walking papers · get the sack

Translations (4)

fi saada kenkää (to be dismissed) · fi saada lähteä (to be voted off) · ga bata agus bóthar a fháil (to be dismissed) · fi saada potkut (to be dismissed)