boot up

Idioms and Phrases

Start a computer, as in When you've booted up, it's best not to turn off the computer until you're done for the day . The term, dating from the late 1970s, was a shortening of bootstrap , another computer idiom referring to using one set of instructions to load another set of instructions. Also see log in .

Example Sentences

These numbers are then downloaded into the game each time you boot up and added to the daily total.

From The Daily Beast

A double boot up the ass for every single one of you sick SOBs!

From The Daily Beast

Yet presently he ceased to rub a boot up and down one leg, and became articulate.

From Project Gutenberg

"I don't 'ike to go down so far," sighed Tot, drawing a little drenched boot up from a treacherous bog.

From Project Gutenberg