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jackboot

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jack·boot also jack-boot  (jkbt)
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.
jackboot
Noun
1. a leather military boot reaching up to the knee
2. brutal and authoritarian rule
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Noun1.jackbootjackboot - (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot
hessian, Hessian boot, Wellington boot, Wellington
boot - footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
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If you're crushing somebody under your jackboot, you have to have a reason.
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He naturally starts with his fellow Russians, who fell under the jackboot of the Soviet form of ideology.
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invasion, the Sunnis dominated the country and kept the Shia and Kurdish populations under the jackboot of Stalin-esque rule.
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