booting

noun — 4 senses

booting

noun
1

A kicking, as with a booted foot.

2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The act by which a computer is booted.

  • […] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.1999, Peter Norton, John M. Goodman, Peter Norton's Inside the PC, page 101:
3

Obsolete Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

  • 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.1618, John Harrington, The most elegant and witty epigrams of Sir Iohn Harrington […] :
4

Multicultural London English, Slang Homicide by gunfire.

  • 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)2015 November 1, “Dem Man Know”, C4 (814) (lyrics):
  • 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 him2019 May 16, “P4DP”, in Digga D (lyrics), Double Tap Diaries EP:
Derived terms
multibooting, nonbooting

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