Editing Boot (disambiguation)

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A '''[[boot]]''' is a type of footwear.

'''Boot'''('''s''') may also refer to:
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== Businesses ==
* [[Boot Inn, Chester]], Cheshire, England
* [[Boots (company)]], a high-street pharmacy chain and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom
* [[The Boot, Cromer Street]], a pub in King's Cross, London

== Places ==
* [[Boot, Cumbria]], a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England
* [[Boot Key]], an island in the Florida Keys
* [[Boot Lake (Nova Scotia)]], Canada
* [[Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts)]]
* [[Boot Rock]], South Sandwich Islands
* [[Boots Creek (Manitoba)]], Canada
* "The Boot", an informal name for [[Italy]], due to the country's shape

== People with the name ==
* [[Boot (surname)]], a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots
* [[Boots (nickname)]], a list of people with the nickname
* [[Boots (musician)]], an American record producer
* [[Gypsy Boots]] (1914–2004), also known as Boots Bootzin, American fitness pioneer, actor and writer born Robert Bootzin
* [[Little Boots]], English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ

== Arts, entertainment, and media ==

===Fictional characters ===
* Boot, an Old English Sheepdog in ''[[The Perishers]]'', a British cartoon strip
* Terry Boot, a member of [[Dumbledore's Army#Members|Dumbledore's Army]] in the ''Harry Potter'' series
* [[William Boot]], the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel ''Scoop''
* Boots, a tiger who sang and played guitar in the ITV children's series ''[[Animal Kwackers]]''
* Boots, the title character of the American comic strip ''[[Boots and Her Buddies]]'', shortened by some newspapers as ''Boots''
* Boots, the hero of the Norwegian fairy tale "[[Boots and the Troll]]"
* Boots, a monkey on the television series ''[[Dora the Explorer (TV series)|Dora the Explorer]]''
* Boots Malone, the title character of the film ''[[Boots Malone]]''
* Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, a main character in the ''[[Bruno and Boots]]'' children's novel series

=== Films ===
* [[Boots (film)|''Boots'' (film)]], a 1919 American silent film starring Dorothy Gish and Richard Barthelmess
* ''[[Das Boot]] ("The Boat")'', a 1981 German movie by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name

=== Music ===
====Labels====
* [[Boot Records]], a former Canadian country, bluegrass and contemporary folk label formed in 1971

====Albums and EPs====
* [[Boots (album)|''Boots'' (album)]], a 1966 album by Nancy Sinatra
* [[Boots (EP)|"Boots" (EP)]], a 2002 EP by industrial music band KMFDM with a cover of the Nancy Sinatra song
* ''[[Boot!]]'', a 2013 album by The Thing
* ''Boots'', a 2002 album by [[Noe Venable]]

====Songs====
* [[Boots (The Killers song)|"Boots" (The Killers song)]], a 2010 song by The Killers
* "Boots", a 1928 song composed by [[Peter Dawson (bass-baritone)|Peter Dawson]] aka "J.P. McCall"
* "Boots", a song by [[Mighty Gabby]]
* "Boots", a song by Kesha from her 2017 album ''[[Rainbow (Kesha album)|Rainbow]]''
* "Boots", a song by [[Hardy (singer)|Hardy]] from his 2020 album ''[[A Rock]]''
*"Boot" (ブート ''Būto''), a song by Macintosh Plus from ''[[Floral Shoppe]]''
* [[Das Boot (song)|"Das Boot" (song)]], title theme of the film of the same name
* "The Boots", a song by [[Gugudan]]

=== Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media===
* [[Boot (magazine)|''Boot'' (magazine)]], an American computer magazine now known as ''Maximum PC''
* [[Boots (poem)|"Boots" (poem)]], by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
* "Boots", an episode of the television series ''[[Teletubbies]]''
* [[Bootleg recording]], unauthorized audio or video recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
* [[The Boot (website)|''The Boot'' (website)]], a music blog owned by Townsquare Media

== Computing ==
* [[Boot (software)]], a Clojure build automation tool
* <kbd>[[/boot/]]</kbd> directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
* [[Booting]], the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when turned on
* [[Ping-Pong virus]], alternatively called "boot"

==Roles or professions==
* Boot, a recruit undergoing [[recruit training]] in the United States Marine Corps or Navy, or an inexperienced marine or sailor
* Boot or boots, a servant who acts as a [[shoeshiner]], especially in a hotel

== Transportation ==
* [[Boot (car)]], the storage compartment of a car
* Boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn [[coach (carriage)|coach]], used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage
* [[Deicing boot]], a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems
* [[Denver boot]], also known as a wheel clamp, which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement
* Boot, or [[Gaiter (vehicle)]], a flexible sleeve covering a moving part

== Other uses ==
* [[Boot (medical)]], a protective device worn while an injured foot is healing
* [[Boot (real estate)]], any property received by a taxpayer in an IRC 1031 exchange which is not like-kind to the relinquished property
* [[Boot (torture)]], a torture device for crushing the human foot
* [[Boot of beer]], a form of beer glassware in the shape of a boot
* [[Build-Operate-Own-Transfer]], an arrangement for funding projects
* [[Cylinder boot]], a rubber protector for the bottom end of a scuba cylinder
* Boot, Old English for [[estovers|estover]], an English law term
* Boot, the outer shell of a [[reed pipe]] in a pipe organ

== See also ==
* [[Bhoot (disambiguation)]]
* [[Booted (song)|"Booted" (song)]], a 1952 R&B song by Roscoe Gordon
* [[Boötes]], a constellation of stars
* "[[Boots, Boots, Boots]]", an episode of the British TV series ''Dad's Army''
* ''[[Boots! Boots!]]'', a 1934 British comedy film
* [[Caligula]] (12–41), nickname (Latin for "little [soldier's] boot") of Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

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