Green’s Dictionary of Slang

boot n.4

[fig. uses of SE boot, a kick]

1. (US) a thrill; thus boot in the ass n., a thrill, a jolt of pleasure; get a boot out of v., to derive pleasure from.

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[US]G. Milburn ‘Convicts’ Jargon’ in AS VI:6 437: boot, a, n. A satisfactory sensation. ‘It gave me a boot.’.
[US]C. Himes ‘Prison Mass’ in Coll. Stories (1990) 160: It wasn’t the idea of religion that he got such a ‘boot’ out of as much as the idea that it had been perpetrated on untold millions of humans.
[US]R.L. Bellem ‘Falling Star’ in Spicy Detective Sept. 🌐 I’d have got a boot out of looking at her if it hadn’t been for the masked bozo’s automatic pointing toward me.
[US]B. Dai Opium Addiction in Chicago 196: Belt. The sensation derived from the use of drugs. Also called kick, boot, drive.
[US]W.R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle in Four Novels (1984) 154: There’d been a time when he’d got a terrific boot out of it.
[US](con. c.1915) G. Duffy Warden’s Wife 61: I get a big boot out of telling people I was born in the big house.
[US]H.S. Thompson letter 25 Dec. in Proud Highway (1997) 594: Even though I know I’m being taken, I get a boot out of it.
[US]C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 46: It was just possible that officer Stokes got the slightest boot out of this, too, but you wouldn’t know it.
[US](con. 1940s) Courtwright & Des Jarlais Addicts Who Survived 134: The morphine sulfate didn’t give me the boot I wanted.
[NZ]McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 85: get a boot out of Gain satisfaction.

2. (drugs) a dose of a given drug [sense 1 is implied].

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[US]J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.
[UK]J. Hoskison Inside 32: ’Ad a boot yesterday mornin’ and I’m starting to feel desperate.
[UK]J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 158: Half-eaten Kit-Kats where the brothers only wanted the foil wraps to have a little boot, empty wraps.

In phrases

out of one’s boots (adv.) [one has been ‘blown’ or ‘knocked’ out of one’s boots]

(US) comprehensively, convincingly, totally.

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[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Jan. 24/3: First hand I picked up on my return was a heart-flush, and I rose the board out of its boots, and had them all working for me for a fortnight.
pull up one’s boot (v.) [the adoption of smart boots as a sign of affluence]

(costermonger) to prosper, to make money.

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[UK]J. Diprose London Life 42: These knights of the barrow – in the language of the fraternity – often boast that if one ‘pulls up his boot,’ he can ‘make up his leg’ by going to market early and ‘knock in’ his ‘ten or twelve hog afore breakfast’.
[UK]J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 202/2: Pull up my boot (Costermongers’). To make money. When a man prepares for his day’s work, be pulls on and strings up his boots.