"get the boot" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "gets the boot",
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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting the boot",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got the boot",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got the boot",
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        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
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        "US",
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      ]
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "order of the boot"
    }
  ],
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Put it down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag.\" \"And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return,\" said Lord John.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 September 16, Lisa O'Carroll, quoting Tony Parsons, “Tony Parsons: I quit the Mirror before I got the boot”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Tony Parsons has claimed that he quit before he \"got the boot\" from the Daily Mirror, after former colleagues expressed their anger over remarks that he made suggesting he had defected to the Sun because he needed to support his family.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be dismissed from employment."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "dismissed",
          "dismissed"
        ],
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be dismissed from employment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "63 37",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be dismissed",
          "word": "saada kenkää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 37",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be dismissed",
          "word": "saada potkut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "63 37",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to be dismissed",
          "word": "bata agus bóthar a fháil"
        }
      ]
    },
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          "_dis": "25 75",
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      "glosses": [
        "To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave."
      ],
      "id": "en-get_the_boot-en-verb-igOzIwUf",
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          "vote",
          "vote"
        ],
        [
          "evict",
          "evict"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "13 87",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to be voted off",
          "word": "saada lähteä"
        }
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "get the chop"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "get the sack"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "get the elbow"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "get the walking papers"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get the boot"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets the boot",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting the boot",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got the boot",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got the boot",
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        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "gotten the boot",
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        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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    }
  ],
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Put it down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag.\" \"And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return,\" said Lord John.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 September 16, Lisa O'Carroll, quoting Tony Parsons, “Tony Parsons: I quit the Mirror before I got the boot”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Tony Parsons has claimed that he quit before he \"got the boot\" from the Daily Mirror, after former colleagues expressed their anger over remarks that he made suggesting he had defected to the Sun because he needed to support his family.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be dismissed from employment."
      ],
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        [
          "dismissed",
          "dismissed"
        ],
        [
          "employment",
          "employment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be dismissed from employment."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave."
      ],
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        [
          "vote",
          "vote"
        ],
        [
          "evict",
          "evict"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "get the chop"
    },
    {
      "word": "get the sack"
    },
    {
      "word": "get the elbow"
    },
    {
      "word": "get the walking papers"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be dismissed",
      "word": "saada kenkää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be dismissed",
      "word": "saada potkut"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to be dismissed",
      "word": "bata agus bóthar a fháil"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be voted off",
      "word": "saada lähteä"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get the boot"
}