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• v  kick; give a boot to
• v  cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
• s  wearing boots

• She says Friendster booted her five times.
• The Silicon Valley visionary who co-founded Apple in his father's garage in 1976, who launched the wildly successful Macintosh only to be booted by the corporate pinheads in 1985 .
• Even in grade school, Ernie could always run faster and throw harder and kick farther than anybody else who booted scuffed old footballs around the sooty playgrounds of Uniontown .

• boot
• reboot
• bring up

News & Articles

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• Tom Petty Fans Offered Full Refund After Fire Marshals Cut Concert Short
  Fans of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will be reimbursed after they were booted from a concert Saturday by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
  June 13, 2013 - CBS 2 Los Angeles
• Red Bulls out of U.S. Open Cup
  BOSTON — The Red Bulls’ trophy-less run will extend for at least one more competition, booted out of the U.S. Open Cup in ignominious fashion, a 4-2 beating by the New England Revolution in a game that was nowhere near that close. Against a team the Red Bulls called mediocre...
  June 13, 2013 - New York Post
• Booted vehicle stolen, tire left in the street, Syracuse police say
  Joann Manor parked her car in front of her son's house, it was booted by police and hours later it was stolen, Syracuse police said.
  June 11, 2013 - The Post-Standard

Quotes

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• KT Tunstall in BBC News
  Ms Tunstall, 32, wrote on her website: "So, 1100 GMT on Christmas morning, the doorbell goes and it's Luke suited and booted. With all his bags. And a little box. Wrapped with a ribbon. He proposed."
• Thomas Jefferson in Salt Lake Tribune
  Put another way, it tells us, as Jefferson wrote near the end of his life, "that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God."
• Dan Uggla in USA Today
  I booted it,Uggla said. "I've got to make that play."