booting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of boot

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A kicking, as with a booted foot.
2. (countable, uncountable)The act by which a computer is booted.

   “[…] you can save yourself a little bit of time on subsequent bootings by altering a setting in the motherboard BIOS.”

3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.

   “Thou, Linus, that louest still to be promoting, Because I sport, about King Henries marriage: Think' st this will proue a matter worth the carriage. But let it alone, Lynus, it is no booting.”

4. (Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable)Homicide by gunfire.

   “C4 run man through the alley Get a man down with the swammy Get a man down with the whammy Boot couple niggas on the road No face no case with the bally (booting)”

   “Just got bail, three shootings I ain’t gotta call up Pacman To go up to country to do some bootings (bu-bu) Tryna aim for your head Pronounce man dead, pull up and suit him”