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Denver boot

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Denver boot
n.
A device locked to the wheel of a parked vehicle to keep it from being driven, used especially to force settlement of outstanding traffic violations.
[After Denver, one of the first cities to use it.]
Denver boot
n
(Engineering / Automotive Engineering) a slang name for wheel clamp
[from Denver, Colorado, where the device was first used]
Translations
Denver boot [ˌdenvəˈbuːt] Denver clamp [ˌdenvəˈklæmp] N (US) → cepo m
Denver boot
n (inf: = car clamp) → Parkkralle f


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cops, city leaders now want to put the Denver Boot on their cars.
EDITORIAL OUTLAW CITY L.A. OFFICIALS TURN BLIND EYE TO LAWBREAKERS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The company that makes and sells the Denver Boot has a new way to help you avoid getting one: a system that lets you pay for parking at meters and lots by using your cell phone.
Denverites Can Now Pay for Parking Via Cell Phone; Park-by-Phone ... by Business Wire
In 2003, this program brings to parking what the parking meter did in 1935 and the Denver Boot 1953.
Clancy Systems International, Inc. Launches Park-by-Phone by Business Wire
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