BOOT OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boot out mean? 

• BOOT OUT (verb)
  The verb BOOT OUT has 2 senses:

1. remove from a position or office

2. put out or expel from a place

  Familiarity information: BOOT OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOT OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from a position or office

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; oust; throw out

Context example:

The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds

Hypernyms (to "boot out" is one way to...):

remove (remove from a position or an office)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "boot out"):

excommunicate (oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree)

depose; force out (force to leave (an office))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put out or expel from a place

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

boot out; chuck out; eject; exclude; turf out; turn out

Context example:

The unruly student was excluded from the game

Hypernyms (to "boot out" is one way to...):

expel; kick out; throw out (force to leave or move out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "boot out"):

evict; force out (expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process)

evict (expel or eject without recourse to legal process)

show the door (ask to leave)

bounce (eject from the premises)

exorcise; exorcize (expel through adjuration or prayers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP