booting

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of boot

  2. A kicking, as with a booted foot.

  3. The act by which a computer is booted.

    • […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.
  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Advantage

      Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

      • 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.
    2. Homicide by gunfire.

      • C4 run man through the alley Get a man down with the swammy Get a man down with the whammy Boot couple niggas on the road No face no case with the bally (booting)
      • Just got bail, three shootings I ain’t gotta call up Pacman To go up to country to do some bootings (bu-bu) Tryna aim for your head Pronounce man dead, pull up and suit him

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No curated loop yet for booting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA