booting
English
editVerb
editbooting
- present participle and gerund of boot
Noun
editbooting (countable and uncountable, plural bootings)
- A kicking, as with a booted foot.
- (computing) The act by which a computer is booted.
- 1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101:
- […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.
- (obsolete) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
- 1618, John Harrington, The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington […] :
- 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.
- (MLE, criminal slang) Homicide by gunfire.
- Coordinate term: chinging
- 2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics):
- 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)
- 2019 May 16, “P4DP”, in Digga D (lyrics), Double Tap Diaries EP:
- 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
Derived terms
editTranslations
editin computing — see boot