booting

noun4

1. •
   A kicking, as with a booted foot.
2. •
   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
3. •
   (slang) Homicide by gunfire.

   • 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
4. •
   (no longer used) 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