Citations:bootstrappy
English citations of bootstrappy
Adjective: "(informal) hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising"
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- 2007, Zagat 2008 Movie Guide, page 164:
- "Big business" and the "bootstrappy American dream" are satirized in this "sly satire" via the Coen brothers about a "plucky mailroom clerk" who "invents the hula hoop" […]
- 2011, Alina Simone, You Must Go and Win: Essays, pages 148-149:
- Unwilling to accept the strictures of the Russian Orthodox Church, they demonstrated a very bootstrappy, can-do attitude by simply inventing their own religion from scratch.
- 2014, L. Alison Heller, The Never Never Sisters, unnumbered page:
- My mom nodded her approval. It was "very bootstrappy" to work late.
- 2014, Ian Klaus, Forging CapitalismRogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance, page 95:
- London's inhabitants are grimy, bootstrappy, hard done-by, and overdrawn.
- 2014, Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture, page 129:
- Recall Howard Rheingold's aforementioned framing of the “digital homesteader,” which harkens to those rough and tumble, bootstrappy American frontiersmen who chose to stake their claim westward.
- 2015, Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, unnumbered page:
- A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the Loyalist governor of the province of Massachusetts.
- 2016, Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King, unnumbered page:
- A little Southern fetishism never killed anyone. Dill and Travis may have been off-brand for her blog, but they were resoundingly on-brand for her bootstrappy admission essay narrative.
- 2017, George S. Zorich, Entrepreneurs in Pharmacy And Other Leaders, page 137:
- I worked the retail side, but also in a very bootstrappy way created other programs.
- 2019, Eero Laine, Professional Wrestling and the Commercial Stage, unnumbered page:
- A billionaire who has battled Donald Trump in the ring and won a ratings war against Ted Turner, Vince McMahon might be the real face of US underdog gumption and bootstrappy determination, even (or maybe especially) as he physically attacks and degrades employees.
- 2019, Anna Pitoniak, Necessary People, unnumbered page:
- Look at me, climbing the ladder at KCN: I was a perfect example of that bootstrappy, self-reliant, equal-opportunity American spirit.
- 2020, Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, unnumbered page:
- This gave me the time and energy to discover my own niche—private clients with mental health issues who felt alienated by bootstrappy mainstream gym culture—and develop that.
- 2020, Vishen Lakhiani, The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work, page 15:
- You might be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or bootstrappy entrepreneur in start-up mode working from a Starbucks.
- 2020, Victoria R. Montgomery Brown, Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur, page 28:
- I'd written to Tom Scott over the years, because I was impressed by what he'd achieved—the bootstrappy-ness of it all.