bootstrappy
adjEtymology From the idiomatic phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.
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Informal Hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising.
- Unwilling to accept the strictures of the Russian Orthodox Church, they demonstrated a very bootstrappy, can-do attitude by simply inventing their own religion from scratch.2011, Alina Simone, You Must Go and Win: Essays, pages 148–149:
- My mom nodded her approval. It was "very bootstrappy" to work late.2014, L. Alison Heller, The Never Never Sisters, unnumbered page:
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- Look at me, climbing the ladder at KCN: I was a perfect example of that bootstrappy, self-reliant, equal-opportunity American spirit.2019, Anna Pitoniak, Necessary People, unnumbered page: