gum boot

noun

: a rubber boot

Examples of gum boot in a Sentence

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The cost includes meals, wine and beer, accommodations, gum boots, and guiding. — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018 The Marashea dressed in gum boots, balaclavas, and traditional woollen blankets, worn clasped beneath the chin. — Kimon De Greef, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023 Guests don gum boots to shift sheep, pick wild watercress for dinner cooked by a private chef, and hike to a secluded waterfall for yoga sessions. — Petrina Darrah, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2023 Baguma, a grave but cordial man wearing a yellow T-shirt and green gum boots, produced a police report and showed us the postmortem photos, printed in shadowy but lurid magenta. — David Quammen, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019 Standing in gum boots by the lapping water of northern Luzon’s Casiguran Sound, Jose Bitong stabs the mud with a metal spear, pumps his arm to widen the hole, and then thrusts in a mangrove seedling. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of gum boot was in 1850

Rhymes for gum boot

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“Gum boot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gum%20boot. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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