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 (disambiguation)
  • 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

TV shows

  • Boots (TV series), a 2025 Netflix LGBT military drama television series starring Miles Heizer and Max Parker

Music

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" (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
  • <kbd>/boot/</kbd> 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

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 Düsseldorf, an annual boat show in Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Boot, Old English for estover, an English law term
  • Boot, the outer shell of a reed pipe in a pipe organ

See also

  • Bhoot (disambiguation)
  • "Booted" (song), a 1952 R&B song by Roscoe Gordon
  • Boötes, a constellation of stars
  • "Boots, Boots, Boots", an episode of the British TV series Dad's Army
  • Boots! Boots!, a 1934 British comedy film
  • Caligula (12–41), nickname (Latin for "little [soldier's] boot") of Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus