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present participle and gerund of boot examples
countable and uncountable, plural bootings
A kicking, as with a booted foot. examples
(computing) The act by which a computer is booted. quotations examples
[…] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.
1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101
(obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. quotations
Thou, Linus, that louest still to be promoting, Because I sport, about King Henries marriage:Think' st this will proue a matter worth the carriage. But let it alone, Lynus, it is no booting.
1618, John Harrington, The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington […]
(MLE, criminal slang) Homicide by gunfire. quotations
C4 run man through the alleyGet a man down with the swammyGet a man down with the whammyBoot couple niggas on the roadNo face no case with the bally (booting)
2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics)
Just got bail, three shootingsI ain’t gotta call up PacmanTo go up to country to do some bootings (bu-bu)Tryna aim for your headPronounce man dead, pull up and suit him
2019 May 16, “P4DP”, in Digga D (lyrics), Double Tap Diaries EP