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jackboot
A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
💬 Quotations
There was a wonderful variety of costume to be seen and studied among the persons around me, […] other soldiers in helmets and jackboots; French officers of various uniform; monks and priests; attendants, in old-fashioned and gorgeous livery; […] so that, in any other country, the scene might have been taken for a fancy ball.
(informal, by extension) The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
To stamp on with a jackboot.
To march in jackboots.