Meaning

1 senses

  1. To shine shoes.

Origin

From boot + black.

From boot + black.

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Forms

bootblacks, bootblacking, bootblacked, bootblacked
Base formbootblack · to bootblack
3rd person singularbootblacks
Present participlebootblacking
Past simplebootblacked
Past participlebootblacked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybootblack
he, she, itbootblacks

Past simpleLesson

all personsbootblacked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bootblacked
he, she, ithas bootblacked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bootblack

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
boosterbootB1boothB2bootlacebootleg

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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