Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1941, U.S. Marines slang, said to be from boot (n.) as slang for "recruit," which supposedly dates from the Spanish-American War and is a synecdoche from boots, leggings worn by U.S. sailors.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly North America colloquial English) Initial, basic indoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in service-related subjects for new recruits in the armed forces (Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps). 2 (context chiefly North America English) A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term. 3 (context chiefly North America idiomatic English) Any short, intensive course of training.
WordNet
n. camp for training military recruits
Wikipedia
Boot camp may refer to:
Boot Camp was an American weekly reality tv game show that aired for one season on Fox starting March 28, 2001. The show drew a lawsuit from Mark Burnett due to similarity to his reality show Survivor. The game was won by Jen Whitlow from Atlanta, Georgia.
Boot camps can be governmental being part of the correctional and penal system of some countries, but predominantly in the United States. Modeled after military recruit training camps, these programs are based on shock incarceration grounded on military techniques. The aggressive training used has resulted in deaths in a variety of circumstances. Boot camps are also criticized around the world for their lack of behavioral change and for the way extreme force can traumatize children and teens.<ref name="nytimes-deaths
Boot Camp Assistant is a multi boot utility included with Apple Inc.'s OS X that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers. The utility guides users through non-destructive disk partitioning (including resizing of an existing HFS+ partition, if necessary) of their hard disk drive and installation of Windows device drivers for the Apple hardware. The utility also installs a Windows Control Panel applet for selecting the boot operating system.
Initially introduced as an unsupported beta for Mac OS X Tiger, the utility was first included with Mac OS X Leopard and has been included in subsequent versions of the operating system ever since. Previous versions of Boot Camp supported Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Boot Camp 4.0 for Mac OS X Snow Leopard up to OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2 only supported Windows 7. However, with the release of Boot Camp 5.0 for OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.3, only 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 are officially supported.
Boot Camp 6.0 added support for Windows 10.
Boot Camp, also released in the UK as Punishment, is a 2008 psychological suspense thriller film written by Agatha Dominik and John Cox and directed by Christian Duguay.
The film's working title was Straight Edge and it was shot in Fiji as the first film to utilize the southwest Pacific Ocean island country's five-year-old incentive program that had been designed to create jobs while building a film production infrastructure. It is about teenagers sent to a rehabilitation camp (in Fiji) who are then abused and brainwashed. The film stars Mila Kunis, Gregory Smith and Peter Stormare. Filming began on October 2, 2006 in Fiji and then continued in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The film was released on DVD internationally in 2008 and in the U.S. on August 25, 2009.
Boot Camp is a young adult novel by Todd Strasser about a boy who is subjected to physical and psychological abuse when his parents send him to a boot camp.
Boot Camp was the only album released by short-lived rap duo, Lil Soldiers. It was released on April 27, 1999 through No Limit Records and was produced by Beats By the Pound and Master P. The two members of the group, Ikeim and Freequoun, were only nine and seven years old when the album was released, so unlike other No Limit Records albums at the time, this album featured very little explicit content and did not receive a Parental Advisory logo. One single was released from the album entitled "Close 2 You".
Usage examples of "boot camp".
My drill instructor taught me that when I went through boot camp at Parris Island.
For the next two weeks I was never so busy -- not even in boot camp.
Naval prison, is a penal institution that was said to combine the worst aspects of Marine boot camp and a medieval dungeon.
I couldn't sleep and you have to have been through boot camp to understand just how far down a recruit has to sink before that can happen.
Nevertheless, Horseshoes he was, so dubbed at boot camp years ago because he had won a horseshoe-pitching contest.
He told her he'd learned how to do that in boot camp at Parris Island when he had first joined the Corps.
Fifteen minutes, the amount of time he had for head calls in Boot Camp all those years ago.
You could get four or five of them just for getting out of boot camp or the Academy.
So they shipped him here to Camp Brezhnev, double-time, to grind the new recruits through the boot camp meat grinder and kill off the chaff.