jackboot
IPA: dʒˈækbut
noun
- A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
- (informal, by extension) The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
verb
- (transitive) To stamp on with a jackboot.
- (intransitive) To march in jackboots.
Examples of "jackboot" in Sentences
- So this guy has perished under your jackboot.
- And if that doesn't work, you get the jackboot.
- If you turn those laws into a Jackboot, you'll get resistance.
- These fascistic mentality and jackboot tactics always backfire.
- The European psyche still shrinks from memories of The Jackboot.
- FTR I rarely use the term feminazi but hey if the jackboot fits.....