- 1英國藥妝連鎖店 Boots（性質接近台灣的屈臣氏、康是美）
Boots, with a capital B, is a British high-street shop. You find one in almost every town in the UK. It sells medicines you can buy without a full hospital visit, plus soap, make-up, , shampoo, and often sandwiches and photo services. British people say “I’m going to Boots” the way many people in Taiwan say they are going to a chemist-and-cosmetics chain — it is the default name, not a fancy brand you have to explain. Staff there can help with everyday health bits; it is a chemist, not a clothes shop and not a shoe shop. The name comes from the surname of the family who started it, not from the things you wear on your feet. In speech it sounds exactly like boots, so the capital letter and the shop context are what save you. Visitors from Taiwan often map it onto 屈臣氏 or 康是美 in their heads, which is close enough for the kind of shelves you will see.
組成A shop name from the surname Boot, the family who founded the chain. Not from the word for the things you wear on your feet.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bootsnoun/buːts/
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slangA condom.
- I said throw away the boots, I want my little youth
bootsnoun/buːts/
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datedA servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
- He gave the boots at the Coffee Palace a shilling when that official found his key for him, and having put his boots carefully in the bag with his shirts, and placed his socks outside to be cleaned for the morning, he went to bed in a state of great mental exultation, and slept soundly.
- If you can get the Boots at the Crown to talk, he will tell you a story which he thinks is amusing, about how he was knocked up at two in the morning by a gentleman who arrived in a car which he had driven in his underclothes.
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slanggovernmentmilitarynavalThe ship in a fleet having the most junior captain.
- […] he sent on the 22d. Vice-Admiral Rook into it, with several Men of War and Fire-Ships, besides the Boots of the Fleet, to endeavour to destroy them: […]
- The captain of Hotspur was Lieutenant T. Herrick, the youngest commanding officer in all the destroyers, and says Hotspur was the “boots” of the fleet! Being the junior ship, she was given jobs no-one wanted.
bootsadv/buːts/
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Used as an intensifier: very, to a great degree; exceptionally.
- That dress is fierce boots!
- Hello-tis, it's Jorgeous! This spicy Latina dancing diva started drag at the age of 16 and never looked back. A fierce performer who was born to do drag, Jorgeous is looking to dance the house down boots all the way to the top.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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