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Jack-booted

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of jackbooted. alt-of, alternative

    "She seemed to feel silent, jack-booted watchers standing outside frightened houses, figures kneeling to scrub the pavements, children coldly excluded from their familiar playgrounds, the informer's whisper in the café, fear and suspicion like rheumatism fastening upon the easy intercourse of friends—all the vicious little tricks of modern tyranny."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of jack-boot form-of, participle, past

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