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jack⋅boot

  [jak-boot]
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–noun
1. a sturdy leather boot reaching up over the knee, worn esp. by soldiers.
2. Also called jackboot tactics. brutally bullying, militaristic, or authoritarian measures.
3. a person who uses such measures.
Origin:
1680–90; jack 1 + boot 1
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jack·boot also jack-boot   (jāk'bōōt')   
n.  

  1. A stout military boot that extends above the knee.

  2. A person who uses bullying tactics, especially to force compliance.

  3. The spirit sustaining and motivating a militaristic, highly aggressive, or totalitarian regime or system.

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jackboot 
1686, type of large, strong cavalry boot of 17c.-18c., later a type worn by Ger. soldiers in the Nazi period. From jack (q.v.), though the exact sense here is unclear + boot. Figurative of military oppression since 1768.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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