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jungle boot en · NOUN

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1. A vented combat boot designed for use in hot, wet and humid environments.
   • The most common objects of pilfering were jungle fatigues and jungle boots, items that aircrew members were authorized – and encouraged – to wear, but which were difficult to obtain through normal supply channels since C-130 personnel were based outside of South Vietnam. 2011, Sam McGowan, Trash Haulers: The Story of the C-130 Hercules Troop Carrier/Tactical Airlift Mission:
   • When plaster fell from the ceiling it lay to be trampled by heavy jungle-boots. 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 22:

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