Usually means: Heavy military boot, authoritarian oppression.
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  1. jackboot: Merriam-Webster
  2. jackboot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jackboot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jackboot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jackboot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jackboot, jackboot: Wordnik
  7. jackboot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jackboot: Wiktionary
  9. jackboot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jackboot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jackboot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jackboot: Dictionary.com
  13. jackboot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Jackboot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Jackboot: Rhymezone
  16. jackboot: FreeDictionary.org
  17. jackboot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. jackboot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. jackboot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. jackboot: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jackboot: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jackboot: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jackboots as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
noun:  (informal, by extension) The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
verb:  (transitive) To stamp on with a jackboot.
verb:  (intransitive) To march in jackboots.

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