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jackboot
(encz) | jackboot,jezdecká holinka n: Zdeněk Brož |
jackboot
(encz) | jackboot,vysoké jezdecké holínky n: Zdeněk Brož |
jackboot
(gcide) | jackboot \jackboot\ n.
1. a man's high tasseled boot. [19th century]
Syn: Hessian boot, hessian, Wellington, Wellington boot.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. A strong leather boot reaching up to or over the knee; it
is worn mostly by soldiers.
[PJC] |
jackboot
(wn) | jackboot
n 1: (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot [syn: {Hessian
boot}, hessian, jackboot, Wellington, {Wellington
boot}] |
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jackboot tactics
(gcide) | jackboot tactics \jackboot tactics\ n. [from the jackboots worn
as part of the uniform of police in certain totalitarian
countries.]
Harsh strongarm tactics; repressive, bullying and
militaristic tactics like those used in authoritarian or
totalitarian countries; -- used opprobriously, and often in
hyperbolic exaggeration of police tactics in democratic
countries.
[PJC] |
jackbooted
(gcide) | jackbooted \jackbooted\ n.
Wearing jackboots; -- used especially as a metaphor for
harshly repressive and militaristic; as, jackbooted
government agents.
[PJC] |
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