desert boot

1. 1.

   a boot reaching halfway up to the knee

   Synonymsbuskincombat boothalf boottop boot

   Broaderboot

Questions about desert boot

What does desert boot mean?

desert boot means "a boot reaching halfway up to the knee".

What is another word for desert boot?

Close synonyms include buskin, combat boot, half boot, top boot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is desert boot a common word?

desert boot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.