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Beer Boot 

Beer boots are a uniquely German innovation. Leave it to the world’s greatest beer loving nation to come up with drinking from a boot! Glass beer boots are a popular German souvenir especially in Bavaria and Munich’s Okotoberfest.

The German custom of drinking for a boot –shaped drinking vessel supposedly started as a German army tradition during World War I. Soldiers would pass around a leather boot of “bier” prior to engaging the enemy. It was considered good luck to flick the beer boot before and after drinking from it. Americans soldiers were introduced to the custom of drink from a glass beer boot while stationed in Germany after World War II. There is a trick to drinking from a beer boot as to not get showered with beer if the toe of the boot is pointed in the wrong direction. The American soldiers had great fun with the beer boots and the fine German beer during their time in Germany . Many of them brought back beer boots and beer steins with them on their return to United States.

Beer boots saw a rise in popularity with the release of the movie BEERFEST by the folks from the Broken Lizard comedy group. In this movie beer boots were used in a beer drinking competition that was no doubt repeated countless times on college campuses after the movies was released.




The beer boot made me spill beer all over myself.
Beer Boot by todd d July 14, 2007
Related Words

muddy boot 

The darkened skin area around the vagina which leaves one with the impression that a muddy boot had recently trod upon it. Often called a muddy bootprint
When Tatiana fell on her ass, the muddy boot was peering out the sides of her thong. The image stalked Jonah's thoughts like an angry lumberjack.
muddy boot by Pantaloon January 14, 2008

go for a boot

Canadian variation for going for a ride. Usually in a car or on a motorcycle. Similar to the saying, "go for a spin"
Wanna go for a boot around the block in my new car?
go for a boot by mrAmCan January 19, 2014

Ninja boot 

The impression made by a woman's pants in the crotch area. Along the same lines as 'camel toe'.
That chick has a sweet ninja boot.
Ninja boot by Dr. Gus March 18, 2003

Redneck boot wash 

is the toilet we stick our boot in to wash the hunting dogs crap off our boots.. nobody wants to grab a hose and wash in cold night air. place foot in toilet swirl around and all crap goes down the drain..
dog shit on boot place in toilet and flush is the ultimate "Redneck boot wash"

Verbose boot

1. When a Mac (or Linux) user boots his/her computer in verbose boot mode. Like iDevice verbosity, except a bit less-filled with crap on the screen, and more juicy info. Mac users, hold down Command (/Apple) + V, Linux users, remove the -splash flag from your kernel boot string.(through the bootloader)

2. When after you've jailbroken (See jailbreaking your iDevice you use redsn0w to set it to verbose boot, so you can watch your iDevice load all it's settings and fuctions while it loads. Or, for debugging if something goes wrong and it won't boot. Highly useful.

Quite amusing, or even scary at times for friends.
Person 1: *walks into room and sees Person 2's Mac verbose booting*
Person 1: Whoah wtf omg what happened to your computer!?
Person 2: It's a verbose boot.

-- Example #2 --

Apple Customer *has device jailbroken*
Apple Store Rep: ..Ok, so what's wrong with it?
Apple Customer: It won't boot
Apple Rep: Well then let me take a look at it. *Presses power button and screen is filled with verbose text*
Apple Rep *gives the customer a weird expression* o_O
Verbose boot by The Macbroker August 3, 2011