Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US English) a wheel clamp or Denver boot 2 (context AU NZ British English) the boot (trunk) of a car 3 (context British English) a car boot sale
Wikipedia
Car boot may refer to:
- Boot (car), a storage space in a car
- Wheel clamp, a device to prevent a vehicle from being moved
- Car boot sale, a market where people sell unwanted possessions from their cars
Usage examples of "car boot".
The man bent to examine the solidly packed interior and said: ``Gives a new meaning to the words `car boot sale' don't it?
There were spare till rolls and boxes of glasses on a shelf above Bothwell's head, framed cowboy posters stacked against a wall, bric-a-brac and debris like everything had just spilled out of a collision at a car boot sale.
Rebus knew what the Weasel was thinking: whoever took the stuff, they'd try flogging it round the pubs or at a car boot sale.
The car boot, incidentally, also contained the body of a young man named Leroy Lugos.
She talked solemnly into his ear, in a very low voice, trying to tell him in parrot language that she thought these goings-on were extremely peculiar, but that so long as Jack approved of them, she did too-and she was coming with him, even in this dark, smelly car boot!
She talked solemnly into his ear, in a very low voice, trying to tell him in parrot language that she thought these goings-on were extremely peculiar, but that so long as Jack approved of them, she did tooand she was coming with him, even in this dark, smelly car boot!
I searched around in the car boot, listening to my teeth chattering, till I came on a jar of antiseptic lubricating cream.
He was no more resentful of that malicious intervention than he would have been of the secretion of a bomb in his car boot.