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noun
1.
a loop of leather or cloth sewn at the top rear, or sometimes on each side, of a boot to facilitate pulling it on.
2.
a means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something: He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters.
adjective
3.
relying entirely on one's efforts and resources: The business was a bootstrap operation for the first ten years.
4.
self-generating or self-sustaining: a bootstrap process.
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Bootstrapped
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
verb (used with object)
Idiom5.
Computers. boot1 (def. 24).
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to help (oneself) without the aid of others: She spent years bootstrapping herself through college.
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pull (oneself) up by (one's) bootstraps, to help oneself without the aid of others; use one's resources: I admire him for pulling himself up by his own bootstraps.
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