Safety Definition–noun, plural -ties. | 1. | the state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss. |
| 2. | the quality of averting or not causing injury, danger, or loss. |
| 3. | a contrivance or device to prevent injury or avert danger. |
| 5. | the action of keeping safe. |
| 6. | Football. | a. | an act or play in which a player on the offensive team is tackled in his own end zone or downs the ball there, or in which the ball goes out of bounds on a fumble, having last been in bounds in or over the end zone and having last been in the possession of an offensive player. Compare touchback. |
| b. | an award of two points to the opposing team on this play. |
| c. | Also called safety man. a player on defense who lines up farthest behind the line of scrimmage. |
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| 7. | Baseball. a base hit, esp. a one-base hit. |
| 9. | Obsolete. close confinement or custody. |
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Boot Definition–noun | 1. | a covering of leather, rubber, or the like, for the foot and all or part of the leg. |
| 2. | Chiefly British. any shoe or outer foot covering reaching to the ankle. |
| 3. | an overshoe, esp. one of rubber or other waterproof material. |
| 4. | an instrument of torture for the leg, consisting of a kind of vise extending from the knee to the ankle, tightened around the leg by means of screws. |
| 5. | any sheathlike protective covering: a boot for a weak automobile tire. |
| 6. | a protective covering for the foot and part of the leg of a horse. |
| 7. | a protecting cover or apron for the driver's seat of an open vehicle. |
| 8. | the receptacle or place into which the top of a convertible car fits when lowered. |
| 9. | a cloth covering for this receptacle or place. |
| 10. | British. the trunk of an automobile. |
| 11. | a rubber covering for the connection between each spark-plug terminal and ignition cable in an automotive ignition system. |
| 12. | Also called Denver boot. a metal device attached to the wheel of a
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parked car so that it cannot be driven away until a fine is paid or the owner reports to the police: used by police to catch scofflaws. |
| 13. | U.S. Navy, Marines. a recruit. |
| 14. | Music. the box that holds the reed in the reed pipe of an organ. |
| 16. | Slang. a dismissal; discharge: They gave him the boot for coming in late. |
| 17. | Informal. a sensation of pleasure or amusement: Watching that young skater win a gold medal gave me a real boot. |
| 18. | Baseball. a fumble of a ball batted on the ground, usually to the infield. |
–verb (used with object) | 19. | to kick; drive by kicking: The boy booted a tin can down the street. |
| 21. | Baseball. to fumble (a ground ball). |
| 22. | to put boots on; equip or provide with boots. |
| 23. | Also, bootstrap. Computers. | a. | to start (a computer) by loading the operating system. |
| b. | to start (a program) by loading the first few instructions, which will then bring in the rest. |
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| 24. | Slang. to dismiss; discharge: They booted him out of school for not studying. |
| 25. | to attach a Denver boot to: Police will boot any car with unpaid fines. |
| 26. | to torture with the boot. |
—Idioms| 27. | bet your boots, to be sure or certain: You can bet your boots that I'll be there! |
| 28. | die with one's boots on, | a. | to die while actively engaged in one's work, profession, etc. |
| b. | to die fighting, esp. in battle, or in some worthy cause. |
Also, especially British, die in one's boots. |
| 29. | get a boot, Informal. to derive keen enjoyment: I really got a boot out of his ridiculous stories. |
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