Usually means: Wearing heavy, oppressive, military boots.
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  1. jackbooted: Merriam-Webster
  2. jackbooted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jackbooted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jackbooted: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jackbooted: Wordnik
  6. jackbooted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. jackbooted: Wiktionary
  8. jackbooted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. jackbooted: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. jackbooted: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. jackbooted: FreeDictionary.org
  12. jackbooted: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. jackbooted: Dictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Wearing jackboots.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Authoritarian or oppressive, especially in a cruel or violent manner.

Similar:
Wellington boot, Hessian, Wellington, hessian boot, booteed, gumbooted, sabotted, lumberjacketed, wellied, jacklegged, more...

Opposite:
unoppressive, lenient, tolerant, permissive, liberal

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Similar:
Wellington boot, Hessian, Wellington, hessian boot, booteed, gumbooted, sabotted, lumberjacketed, wellied, jacklegged, more...

Opposite:
unoppressive, lenient, tolerant, permissive, liberal



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