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What (who) is JACKBOOTS - definition
MILITARY BOOT
Jackboots; Jackbooted Thug; Jack boots; Sapog; Sapogi
![Jackboots of the [[Household Cavalry]], British Army.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JackbootsHouseholdCavalry.jpg?width=200 "Jackboots of the [[Household Cavalry]], British Army.")
![Stalin's Boots]]", a monument in [[Hungary]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stalin's Boots.jpg?width=200 "Stalin's Boots]]\", a monument in [[Hungary]].")
Jackboot
A jackboot is a military boot such as the cavalry jackboot or the hobnailed jackboot. The hobnailed jackboot has a different design and function from the first type.
jackboot
(jackboots)
1.
Jackboots are heavy boots that come up to the knee, such as the ones worn by some soldiers.
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2.
If a country or group of people is under the jackboot, they are suffering because the government is cruel and undemocratic.
PHRASE [disapproval]
jackboot
¦ noun a large leather military boot reaching to the knee.
Derivatives
jackbooted adjective
Wikipedia
Jackboot
A jackboot is a military boot such as the cavalry jackboot or the hobnailed jackboot. The hobnailed jackboot has a different design and function from the first type. It is a combat boot that is designed for marching. It rises to mid-calf or higher without laces and sometimes has a leather sole with hobnails. Jackboots have been associated popularly with totalitarianism, as they were worn by German military and paramilitary forces during the Second World War; however, they have been used officially by other nations as well, including the United Kingdom, and had some civilian uses as well.
Examples of use of JACKBOOTS
1. It was a time of jackboots, strict orders and tough punishments.
2. "Hitler and the Germans would be marching across Britain in their jackboots.
3. The song "Links–Zwo–Drei–Vier" – Left–Two–Three–Four – is introduced by the sound of marching jackboots.
4. While covering the long journey alone, he witnessed the reality of the motherland groaning under the jackboots of the Japanese imperialists.
5. And for Red Ken to pose in his Che Guevara T–shirt, Hezbollah headscarf, IRA gunbelt and Stasi jackboots. ______________________________________ Keep on rocking in the free world...