Sekirov Dictionary

jackboot

/ˈd͡ʒækbuːt/

noun 2
verb 2
forms 3

noun2

A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
•
The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
- That country has been under the jackboot of the military for years.

verb2

•
To stamp on with a jackboot.
- The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper. — 2000
•
To march in jackboots.
- All his childhood they had stormed through the cinema newsreels, jackbooting triumphantly through Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Paris. Now they would jackboot through Garmouth. Followed by the Gestapo. — 1990

forms

jackbooted · jackbooting · jackboots

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