English · Idiom Candidate

to boot

Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.

Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

in addition to something

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Ngoài ra hoặc thêm vào

Machine-translated — suggest a fix

Literally: on the boot

Where it’s used: Used Widespread English

Examples

It leads to the Gulag, you know, and is patriarchal to boot(translation: Marx had a beard).

As an example, one of our machines with a SCSI hard drive takes about three minutes to boot from cold, as the SCSI card gets its affairs in order.

British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-31; pending editor spot-check.

Topics: Clothes

Common questions

What does “to boot” mean?

in addition to something Literally: on the boot

Is “to boot” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.

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