"hang up one's boots" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hang up one's boots.ogg Forms: hangs up one's boots [present, singular, third-person], hanging up one's boots [participle, present], hung up one's boots [participle, past], hung up one's boots [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hang<,,hung> up one's boots|head=hang up one's boots}} hang up one's boots (third-person singular simple present hangs up one's boots, present participle hanging up one's boots, simple past and past participle hung up one's boots)
  1. (idiomatic) to retire, call it a day Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: hang up one's fiddle Related terms: hang up one's hat Translations (to retire): ripustaa pelikenkänsä naulaan (Finnish), lopettaa (Finnish), raccrocher les crampons (French), לִתְלוֹת נַעֲלַיִם (Hebrew), odchodzić z zawodu [imperfective] (Polish), odejść z zawodu [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-hang_up_one's_boots-en-verb-iHBzFBY2 Disambiguation of 'to retire': 92 8
  2. (informal, sports) To stop playing a field sport. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Sports
    Sense id: en-hang_up_one's_boots-en-verb-s1FDzxad Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 70 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 33 67 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 30 70 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 36 64 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Inflected forms

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      "form": "hangs up one's boots",
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        "(idiomatic) to retire, call it a day"
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          "_dis1": "58 42",
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to retire",
          "word": "ripustaa pelikenkänsä naulaan"
        },
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          "_dis1": "92 8",
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          "sense": "to retire",
          "word": "לִתְלוֹת נַעֲלַיִם"
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        "(informal, sports) To stop playing a field sport."
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        "to retire, call it a day"
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          "retire"
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        "(idiomatic) to retire, call it a day"
      ],
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        "To stop playing a field sport."
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      "word": "hang up one's fiddle"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to retire",
      "word": "ripustaa pelikenkänsä naulaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to retire",
      "word": "lopettaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to retire",
      "word": "raccrocher les crampons"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "to retire",
      "word": "לִתְלוֹת נַעֲלַיִם"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to retire",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "odchodzić z zawodu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to retire",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "odejść z zawodu"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hang up one's boots"
}

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