nedlum's definitions

jackboot

1. A thick military boot.
2. A common epithet, used to conflate someone with Nazism.

"I am still without any clear information as to what a jackboot is. It is a kind of boot that you put on when you want to behave tyrannically: that is as much as anyone seems to know."

-George Orwell

by nedlum February 15, 2006