Boots urban dictionary gay
This post provides queenly slang definitions of the word "boots". Addendum #1 of this post includes my comments about those definitions and what I accept is the similar way that the slang word "boom" is used in some sentences. Addendum #2 of this post includes links to two online discussions about whether the use of drag terms by people outside of those communities is appropriate. Two excerpts from those discussions are included in that Addendum.
Added May 16, 2015- Drag definitions and examples of "toot"and "boot" and "top toot".
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1. A slang synonym for "inline skates," which are also established by the brand name "Rollerblades." This term was coined by skateboarders frustrated by the mass influx of generally clueless, and unobservant inline skaters that always get in the way at skateparks. It is a perjorative term used for the purpose of insulting inline skaters as being homosexual.
2. High heel boots worn by a transvestite.
1. Those stupid dorks wearing fruit boots never look where they are going and always result in collisions at the skatepark.
2. The drag queen put on some fruit boots to go skating at the skatepark after taking off his/her thigh-high fruit boots.
by Marcus Solomon November 20, 2007
Climbing boots with bolt-on crampons that are used by climbers for steep ice and mixed routes. Major manufacturers of these boots include: Kayland, La Sportiva, and Lowa. The bolt-on crampons are mostly produced by Black Diamond (US), Grivel (Italy), and Petzl (France).
Adam: Are youwearing fruit boots to Hanfer Creek?
Tom: No, it is too damn cold for wearing them today.
by ice climber January 11, 2010
A term used to express exaggerated joy and approval by onlookers or witnesses to behavior perceived as iconic or fierce (e.g. a death plummet during a voguing production, a friend looking boiling in a provocative outfit, etc.), or at an unexpected but propitious outcome (e.g. a celebrity coming out, news of a highly anticipated album let go, etc.), typically within the context of gay counterculture.
The term is a portmanteau and takes the build of a command followed by a proclamation. "Slay the house down boots" mixes the use of "slay", widely used as a shorthand to state joyful surprise, with the instruction to slay "the house down", implying a larger edifice or audience, typically in the context of a performance. The addition of "boots" is used for shock outcome, echoing wider gay parlance. "Houston I'm deceased" is a play on the lines used by astronauts communicating to NASA's Mission Control and implies that the reaction was so urgent that a well-known authority had to be notified; "I'm deceased" h
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