jackboot

A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.

Noun

A glossy leather calf-covering military boot, commonly associated with German soldiers of the WWII era.
- On a huge tomb-like table in the middle of the room, lay two pencilled profiles of Mr. Fielding, a pawnbroker’s ticket, a pair of ruffles, a very little muff, an immense broadsword, a Wycherley comb, a jackboot, and an...
- There was a wonderful variety of costume to be seen and studied among the persons around me, […] other soldiers in helmets and jackboots; French officers of various uniform; monks and priests; attendants, in...
- The coat itself, a long one of some fuzzy material, with huge side pockets into which the man's hands were plunged, reached to the cavernous tops of jackboots where the nether ends of his trousers were stowed away. -...
The spirit that motivates a totalitarian or overly militaristic regime or policy.
- That country has been under the jackboot of the military for years.

From Old French jaque (“coat of mail”).

To stamp on with a jackboot.
- The two porters leapt into action, steamed up to the front of the room and started jackbooting the burning paper. - 2000, Geoff Nicholson, Bedlam Burning:
To march in jackboots.
- All his childhood they had stormed through the cinema newsreels, jackbooting triumphantly through Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Paris. Now they would jackboot through Garmouth. Followed by the Gestapo. - 1990, Robert Westall,...