Definitions
(19th century) a man's high tasseled boot
Word origin
From Old French jaque (“coat of mail”).
Used in a sentence
“The coat itself, a long one of some fuzzy material, with huge side pockets into which the man's hands were plunged, reached to the cavernous tops of jackboots where the nether ends of his trousers were stowed away.”
“That country has been under the jackboot of the military for years.”
“The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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