jack-boot

jack-boot (plural jack-boots)

1. Alternative form of jackboot
   • 1803, Charles Dibdin, The Professional Life of Mr. Dibdin - Volume 4, page 174:

     Oh, damn your strops, I always strop my razor upon an old jack-boot.

   • 1943, D. Barlone, A French Officer's Diary (23 August 1939-1 October 1940), page 113:

     This is the sort of re/gime promised to those who are so weak as to remain under the jack-boot, not to speak of labour camps in France and perhaps in Germany and Poland;

   • 2008, Charles Kingsley, Plays and Puritans, page 80:

     He carried a Bible in his jack-boot: but did that prevent him, as Oliver rode past him with an approving smile on Naseby field, thinking himself a very handsome fellow, with his moustache and imperial, and bright red coat, and cuirass well polished, in spite of many a dint, as he sate his father's great black horse as gracefully and firmly as any long-locked and essenced cavalier in front of him?

jack-boot (third-person singular simple present jack-boots, present participle jack-booting, simple past and past participle jack-booted)

1. Alternative form of jackboot
   • 1946, Brian Charles Fitzpatrick, The Australian People, 1788-1945, page 150:

     The squatters' Australia was a rough society of rugged wealth-seekers jack-booting their determined way over an unprivileged great majority.

   • 1967, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, page 79:

     Never was love more brutally jack-booted by power than in Belsen, Dachau, and Buchenwald.

   • 1980, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard):

     By jack-booting his way through the House with a guillotine motion and by denying its democratic rights, he is jack-booting his way through the security and peace of mind of 3 million private tenants, and he is destroying the housing hopes of hundreds of thousands of those who are in genuine housing need.

• Bootjack, bootjack