Boot (disambiguation)

A boot is a type of footwear.

Boot(s) may also refer to:

Businesses

 * Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England
 * Boots (company), a high-street pharmacy chain and manufacturer of pharmaceuticals in the United Kingdom
 * The Boot, Cromer Street, a pub in King's Cross, London

Places

 * Boot, Cumbria, a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, England
 * Boot Key, an island in the Florida Keys
 * Boot Lake (Nova Scotia), Canada
 * Boot Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
 * Boot Rock, South Sandwich Islands
 * Boots Creek (Manitoba), Canada
 * "The Boot", an informal name for Italy, due to the country's shape

People with the name

 * Boot (surname), a list of people surnamed either Boot or Boots
 * Boots (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
 * Boots (musician), an American record producer
 * Gypsy Boots (1914–2004), also known as Boots Bootzin, American fitness pioneer, actor and writer born Robert Bootzin
 * Little Boots, English electropop singer-songwriter and DJ

Fictional characters

 * Boot, an Old English Sheepdog in The Perishers, a British cartoon strip
 * Terry Boot, a member of Dumbledore's Army in the Harry Potter series
 * William Boot, the fictional protagonist of the Evelyn Waugh novel Scoop
 * Boots, a tiger who sang and played guitar in the ITV children's series Animal Kwackers
 * Boots, the title character of the American comic strip Boots and Her Buddies, shortened by some newspapers as Boots
 * Boots, the hero of the Norwegian fairy tale "Boots and the Troll"
 * Boots, a monkey on the television series Dora the Explorer
 * Boots Malone, the title character of the film Boots Malone
 * Melvin "Boots" O'Neal, a main character in the Bruno and Boots children's novel series

Films

 * Boots (film), a 1919 American silent film starring Dorothy Gish and Richard Barthelmess
 * Das Boot ("The Boat"), a 1981 German movie by Wolfgang Petersen based on the Lothar-Günther Buchheim novel of the same name

Labels

 * Boot Records, a former Canadian country, bluegrass and contemporary folk label formed in 1971

Albums and EPs

 * Boots (album), a 1966 album by Nancy Sinatra
 * "Boots" (EP), a 2002 EP by industrial music band KMFDM with a cover of the Nancy Sinatra song
 * Boot!, a 2013 album by The Thing
 * Boots, a 2002 album by Noe Venable

Songs

 * "Boots" (The Killers song), a 2010 song by The Killers
 * "Boots", a 1928 song composed by Peter Dawson aka "J.P. McCall"
 * "Boots", a song by Mighty Gabby
 * "Boots", a song by Kesha from her 2017 album Rainbow
 * "Boots", a song by Hardy from his 2020 album A Rock
 * "Boot" (ブート Būto), a song by Macintosh Plus from Floral Shoppe
 * "Das Boot" (song), title theme of the film of the same name
 * "The Boots", a song by Gugudan

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * Boot (magazine), an American computer magazine now known as Maximum PC
 * "Boots" (poem), by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
 * "Boots", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
 * Bootleg recording, unauthorized audio or video recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
 * The Boot (website), a music blog owned by Townsquare Media

Computing

 * Boot (software), a Clojure build automation tool
 * /boot/ directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
 * Booting, the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when turned on
 * Ping-Pong virus, alternatively called "boot"

Roles or professions

 * Boot, a recruit undergoing recruit training in the United States Marine Corps or Navy, or an inexperienced marine or sailor
 * Boot or boots, a servant who acts as a shoeshiner, especially in a hotel

Transportation

 * Boot (car), the storage compartment of a car
 * Boot, a built-in compartment on a horse-drawn coach, used originally as a seat for the coachman and later for storage
 * Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems
 * Denver boot, also known as a wheel clamp, which can be attached to a vehicle to prevent its movement
 * Boot, or Gaiter (vehicle), a flexible sleeve covering a moving part

Other uses

 * Boot (medical), a protective device worn while an injured foot is healing
 * Boot (real estate), any property received by a taxpayer in an IRC 1031 exchange which is not like-kind to the relinquished property
 * Boot (torture), a torture device for crushing the human foot
 * Boot of beer, a form of beer glassware in the shape of a boot
 * Build-Operate-Own-Transfer, an arrangement for funding projects
 * Cylinder boot, a rubber protector for the bottom end of a scuba cylinder
 * Boot, Old English for estover, an English law term
 * Boot, the outer shell of a reed pipe in a pipe organ