boot fair
English
editNoun
editboot fair (plural boot fairs)
- A market fair with sellers operating out of the boots (trunks) of their cars; a market requiring little more than a meet.
- Synonym: car boot sale
- Near-synonyms: swap meet, flea market
- 2015, Ron Geesin, Excerpt from: Ron Geesin: An Improvised Life[1]:
- And then when the boot fair phenomenon hit us, in the — I think it was in the eighties, you know, not that long ago — and I saw these strange objects, rusty objects, poking their heads out of rusty buckets. I was hooked.