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boost n. 1 lift, shove or push up or upward(s), Colloq leg up; rise,
raise: If you give me a boost up, I can reach the window ledge.
2 encouragement, help, aid, assistance, support: With a boost
from your constituency, Trevor should win the vote. 3 increase,
rise, US raise, hike: He was given a slight boost in salary as
an incentive to stay.
--v. 4 lift, shove or push up or upward(s), raise: He boosted
her over the fence. The second stage is intended to boost the
rocket beyond the atmosphere. 5 encourage, promote, help, aid,
support, assist, improve: A talk from the manager before the
game helped to boost the players' morale. 6 increase, raise:
Her salary was boosted twice in one year.
boot n. 1 to boot. in addition, into the bargain, in addition,
besides, moreover, as well, also, too, additionally: He's
stingy and cruel - and ugly to boot. 2 shoe, riding-boot,
bootee: I need a new pair of boots for my walking holiday.
--v. 3 eject, expel, shove, propel, push, Colloq kick: The
landlord booted three rowdies out of the pub. 4 Literary
profit, avail, help, be in aid of: What boots it to complain?
booth n. 1 stall, stand: Our company has taken three booths at the
book fair. 2 compartment, cubicle, box, kiosk: We walked
across the road to a telephone booth and phoned a garage.
bootless adj. pointless, unavailing, vain, purposeless, useless, futile,
worthless, unproductive, ineffective, inefficacious, fruitless,
unprofitable, profitless, unremunerative, unrewarding, wasteful,
time-wasting, Sisyphean: It's a bootless task trying to
persuade him of the importance of a good education.
booty n. plunder, gain, spoil(s), contraband, takings, loot, Slang
swag, boodle, (hot) goods, take: The pirates fought over the
booty seized from the Spanish galleon.
booze n. 1 drink, (hard) liquor, spirit(s), whisk(e)y, alcohol, US
demon rum, John Barleycorn, mountain dew, white lightning, white
mule; Slang rot-gut, poison, fire-water, mother's ruin, US and
Canadian sauce, juice, hooch, red-eye: I ordered plenty of