Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The impression left by a
boot while walking
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word bootprint.
Examples
-
Rather than trying to make a bootprint on the surface, wouldn't a large pole be easier for her to poke the surface with?
SETI Institute: Robots vs. Humans: Should we cede solar system exploration to the robots? Do humans have a place beyond low Earth orbit? SETI Institute 2011
-
Yet without that bootprint, that iconic image of "touching the surface," have we really explored those worlds?
SETI Institute: Robots vs. Humans: Should we cede solar system exploration to the robots? Do humans have a place beyond low Earth orbit? SETI Institute 2011
-
Inside, everything was as she'd left it — television on, empty pizza boxes on the kitchen bench, unwashed dishes piled in the sink — everything, that is, except for the lone muddy bootprint on the veranda step.
The Temperature of Porridge Sally Houtman 2012
-
Today there are new costs, in the form of a new generation of jihadists angry about America's massive bootprint in Arab lands.
William Bradley: Afghan War at 10, 9/11 at 10+: Did Osama bin Laden Win After All? William Bradley 2011
-
If you think of an iconic image of space exploration, chances are you'll come up with an astronaut planting a flag on the Moon, or perhaps that classic image of a single bootprint from Apollo 11.
SETI Institute: Robots vs. Humans: Should we cede solar system exploration to the robots? Do humans have a place beyond low Earth orbit? SETI Institute 2011
-
Today there are new costs, in the form of a new generation of jihadists angry about America's massive bootprint in Arab lands.
William Bradley: Afghan War at 10, 9/11 at 10+: Did Osama bin Laden Win After All? William Bradley 2011
-
I found his bootprint in the dirt outside our trailer.
BELLY UP STUART GIBBS 2010
-
I found his bootprint in the dirt outside our trailer.
BELLY UP STUART GIBBS 2010
-
You'll find the heavy bootprint of the United States of America.
-
Judge C. Victor Lander, who oversees Dallas 'municipal courts, is currently nursing a large bootprint on the top of his head for a column he wrote earlier this week in the city's African-American newspaper.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.