German

Noun

Boots

1. genitive singular of Boot

Synonyms

• Bootes

English

Noun

boots

1. plural of boot
2. (sports) The sports shoes worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
3. (dated) A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes. (takes a singular verb)
   • 2001, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, New York: Scribner, ISBN 0-7432-2294-6, page 411:

     The young man with Doyler, who indeed no longer worked at Lee's of Kingstown, but had advanced to a position of boots and bottle-washer at the Russell Hotel adjacent the Green, was looking uneasy. [...] The boots was sure.

4. (Jamaica, slang, plural only) A condom.^[1]
   • 1980, Black Uhuru, "Abortion", Black Uhuru (re-released as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in 1983):

     I said throw away the boots, I want my little youth

Synonyms

• (condom): see also Wikisaurus:condom.

References

1. ↑ Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds, Jabari: Authentic Jamaican Dictionary of the Jamic Language, Around the Way Books (2006), ISBN 0975534254, page 17

Verb

boots

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of boot

Anagrams

• boost
• botos