BOOT OUT
Dictionary entry overview: What does boot out mean?
• BOOT OUT (verb)
The verb BOOT OUT has 2 senses:
1. remove from a position or office
2. put out or expel from a place
Familiarity information: BOOT OUT used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BOOT OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Remove from a position or office
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
oust; drum out; boot out; kick out; expel; throw out
Context example:
The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds
Hypernyms (to "boot out" is one way to...):
remove (remove from a position or an office)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "boot out"):
excommunicate (oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree)
depose; force out (force to leave (an office))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Put out or expel from a place
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
turf out; eject; boot out; expel; chuck out; kick out; throw out; exclude; turn out
Context example:
The child was expelled from the classroom
Hypernyms (to "boot out" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "boot out"):
evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)
evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)
show the door (ask to leave)
bounce (eject from the premises)
bump; dislodge; displace (remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied)
exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
