booting

/B UW1 T IH0 NG/
verb
  1. 1

    To kick.

    โ€œI booted the ball toward my teammate.โ€

  2. 2

    To put boots on, especially for riding.

  3. 3

    To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).

  4. 4

    To forcibly eject.

    โ€œWe need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possibleโ€

  5. 5

    To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.

  6. 6

    To vomit.

    โ€œSorry, I didnโ€™t mean to boot all over your couch.โ€

  7. 7

    (criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.

Synonyms

verb
  1. 1

    To avail, benefit, profit.

  2. 2

    To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.

verb
  1. 1

    To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

    โ€œWhen arriving at the office, first thing I do is booting my machine.โ€

noun
  1. 1

    A kicking, as with a booted foot.

  2. 2

    The act by which a computer is booted.

  3. 3

    Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

  4. 4

    (criminal slang) Homicide by gunfire.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boot, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/booting