boot out

English

Verb

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

1. (transitive, colloquial) Emphatic synonym of kick out: to remove, to eject, to expel; to dismiss (from a position, job, etc.).
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 19:

     ‘These guys,’ said Tom, ‘the ones who put out this magazine at Radley. What happened to them?’ […]
     ‘Ah, now this is why we must proceed with great circumspection. They were both, hum, “put out” themselves. “Booted out” I believe is the technical phrase.’

2. (intransitive, skiing, skating) To fall or slide out of a turn due to excessive lean, which causes the athlete's boot to contact and pivot on the surface and the proper surface contact element to lose contact and traction.