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oost<br />

fellow?<br />

n. 1 lift, shove or push up or upward(s), Colloq leg up; rise,<br />

raise: If you give me a boost up, I can reach the window ledge.<br />

2 encouragement, help, aid, assistance, support: With a boost<br />

from your constituency, Trevor should win the vote. 3 increase,<br />

rise, US raise, hike: He was given a slight boost in salary as<br />

an incentive to stay.<br />

--v. 4 lift, shove or push up or upward(s), raise: He boosted<br />

her over the fence. The second stage is intended to boost the<br />

rocket beyond the atmosphere. 5 encourage, promote, help, aid,<br />

support, assist, improve: A talk from the manager before the<br />

game helped to boost the players' morale. 6 increase, raise:<br />

Her salary was boosted twice in one year.<br />

boot<br />

n. 1 to boot. in addition, into the bargain, in addition,<br />

besides, moreover, as well, also, too, additionally: He's<br />

stingy and cruel - and ugly to boot. 2 shoe, riding-boot,<br />

bootee: I need a new pair of boots for my walking holiday.<br />

booth<br />

--v. 3 eject, expel, shove, propel, push, Colloq kick: The<br />

landlord booted three rowdies out of the pub. 4 Literary<br />

profit, avail, help, be in aid of: What boots it to complain?<br />

n. 1 stall, stand: Our company has taken three booths at the<br />

book fair. 2 compartment, cubicle, box, kiosk: We walked<br />

across the road to a telephone booth and phoned a garage.<br />

bootless adj. pointless, unavailing, vain, purposeless, useless, futile,<br />

worthless, unproductive, ineffective, inefficacious, fruitless,<br />

unprofitable, profitless, unremunerative, unrewarding, wasteful,<br />

time-wasting, Sisyphean: It's a bootless task trying to<br />

persuade him of the importance of a good education.<br />

booty<br />

n. plunder, gain, spoil(s), contraband, takings, loot, Slang<br />

swag, boodle, (hot) goods, take: The pirates fought over the<br />

booty seized from the Spanish galleon.<br />

booze n. 1 drink, (hard) liquor, spirit(s), whisk(e)y, alcohol, US<br />

demon rum, John Barleycorn, mountain dew, white lightning, white<br />

mule; Slang rot-gut, poison, fire-water, mother's ruin, US and<br />

Canadian sauce, juice, hooch, red-eye: I ordered plenty of

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