jackboot
nounA stout military boot that extends above the knee.
A person who uses bullying tactics, especially to force compliance.
The spirit sustaining and motivating a militaristic, highly aggressive, or totalitarian regime or system.
A kind of large boot reaching up over the knee, and serving as defensive armor for the leg, introduced in the seventeenth century; now, a similar boot reaching above the knee, worn by fishermen and others.
A man's high tasseled boot.
