jackbooted

adjective

jack·​boot·​ed ˈjak-ˌbü-təd 

1

: wearing jackboots

2

: ruthlessly and violently oppressive

jackbooted force

Examples of jackbooted in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Karol let those lines here serve as her brief indictment of the present, jackbooted environment around immigration and repression in the United States. — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026

Hungary under his rule is far from a jackbooted dictatorship, but its democracy is diverging markedly from that of many of its partners in the European Union. — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018

Was Rizzo a jackbooted tyrant who went out of his way to punish blacks and gays? — David Gambacorta, Philly.com, 22 Aug. 2017

For some, the racist taunts of the past few days recalled a time when jackbooted members of the far-right National Front taunted immigrants on the streets of Britain in the 1980s, during the painful deindustrialization of the Thatcher era. — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 27 June 2016

Word History

First Known Use

1763, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for jackbooted

• commuted
• computed
• confuted
• diluted
• disputed
• eluted
• imputed
• minuted
• nonsuited
• permuted
• polluted
• recruited