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jackboot
[ jak-boot ]
noun
- a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn especially by soldiers.
- Also called jackboot tactics. brutally bullying, militaristic, or authoritarian measures.
- a person who uses such measures.
jackboot
/ 藞诲萧忙办藢产耻藧迟 /
noun
- an all-leather military boot, extending up to or above the knee
- arbitrary, cruel, and authoritarian rule or behaviour
- ( as modifier )
jackboot tactics
Derived Forms
- 藞箩补肠办藢产辞辞迟别诲, adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Example Sentences
Transparency in government is one of our oldest and most sacrosanct rights; it is what protects us from jackboots in the night.
A disproportionate number not only did not even passively resist but showed themselves eager to lick the polish off Hitler鈥檚 jackboots, if necessary.
Sorry, MAGA, but if the jackboot fits, wear it: he is an authoritarian, a statist, a racist, an aspiring fascist, a hateful, mendacious, corrupt traitor, a fool, mentally ill, and frankly evil.
The comedian George Carlin said that it would come not 鈥渨ith jackboots鈥 but 鈥淣ike sneakers and smiley shirts.鈥
Letting defeat creep in when I see all of us getting stomped on by tech-enabled jackboots in an unregulated corporate panopticon.
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