Definition of jackbooted in English:
jackbooted
adjective
See jackboot
‘Parking restrictions are enforced with far too much enthusiasm and vigour by jackbooted bureaucrats.’
- ‘Scores of jackbooted extras paraded their uniforms up and down the adjacent streets.’
- ‘Our country is not being controlled by jackbooted fascists.’
- ‘A brave and spirited people had again been trampled under jackbooted feet.’
- ‘We're not supposed to be ruled by militarized, jackbooted forces.’
- ‘Progress, in all of its jackbooted glory, marches on, and if you are lucky it will not trample you.’
- ‘They were stopped and asked for identity papers by some jackbooted official.’
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