Definition
To be dismissed from employment.
To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave.
In Context
- ""Put it down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag." "And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return," said Lord John."
- "Tony Parsons has claimed that he quit before he "got the boot" from the Daily Mirror, after former colleagues expressed their anger over remarks that he made suggesting he had defected to the Sun because he needed to support his family."
See Also
- order of the boot