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bootheel

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boot⋅heel

[boot-heel]
–noun (sometimes initial capital letter)
an area of SE Missouri where the Missouri-Arkansas border dips southward forming a rectangular-shaped extension of the state.

Origin:
boot 1 + heel 1 ; so called from the shape on the map; cf. panhandle
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