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  • noun Plural form of bootprint.

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Examples

  • Nigel de Jong is fresh from a World Cup final, where admittedly he left some fairly infamous bootprints, and before building the Premier League's latest bone-crusher it might be as well to bear in mind that the Dutch midfielder is 5ft 8in tall and weighs 11st.

    Tackling is still nowhere as hard as in the bad old days Paul Wilson 2010

  • Especially if on a subsequent lunar 'spysat' (probably not LRO resolution max 0.5 m) ... we get sufficient resolution to pick up the bootprints.

    Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Progress Report: More Lunar Boulders - NASA Watch 2009

  • When you needed a toilet, you went to a cubicle with inverted metal bootprints on either side of a hole in the floor.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » August 2008

  • It was possible that Tríona had been searching for something in the stacks or online, but library policy had put up an unexpected roadblock—call slips and computer logs were routinely shredded by librarians concerned about government bootprints on the Bill of Rights.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • After a shaky little bridge the route was immediately uphill and while the waymarkers were obvious, it was clear that this trail is subject to far fewer bootprints than the WHW.

    Lochaber Marathon 2010

  • And about a hundred yards back of where I finally got the truck under control after the tire blew, there were bootprints leading into the woods that stopped and turned around just inside the tree line, then headed deeper into the woods.

    Heaven’s Fury Stephen Frey 2010

  • It was possible that Tríona had been searching for something in the stacks or online, but library policy had put up an unexpected roadblock—call slips and computer logs were routinely shredded by librarians concerned about government bootprints on the Bill of Rights.

    FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010

  • After a shaky little bridge the route was immediately uphill and while the waymarkers were obvious, it was clear that this trail is subject to far fewer bootprints than the WHW.

    Cateran recce runs #1 2010

  • The more people who tell Joe to grow screw himself the more bootprints land on his ass (to totally mix metaphors).

    Reid Spokesperson: Democratic Senators May Vote On Lieberman's Fate In Full Caucus Meeting 2009

  • While Europeans are fretting about their carbon footprint, Africans are gasping to breathe free under the bootprints of dictators.

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Toxic Ecology of African Dictatorships 2009

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