"hang up one's boots" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hang up one's boots.ogg [Australia] 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 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': 61 39
  2. (informal, sports) To retire from or stop playing a field sport. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Sports
    Sense id: en-hang_up_one's_boots-en-verb-Al~n3qJ8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hang up one's fiddle Related terms: hang up one's hat

Inflected forms

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      "word": "strap on the boots"
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      "form": "hangs up one's boots",
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        "present",
        "singular",
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      ]
    },
    {
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    {
      "form": "hung up one's boots",
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      "_dis1": "50 50",
      "word": "hang up one's hat"
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        "to retire, call it a day"
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        "(idiomatic) to retire, call it a day"
      ],
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          "_dis1": "61 39",
          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to retire",
          "word": "ripustaa pelikenkänsä naulaan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 39",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to retire",
          "word": "lopettaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 39",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to retire",
          "word": "raccrocher les crampons"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "61 39",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "to retire",
          "word": "לִתְלוֹת נַעֲלַיִם"
        },
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          "_dis1": "61 39",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to retire",
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          ],
          "word": "odchodzić z zawodu"
        },
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          "sense": "to retire",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "odejść z zawodu"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To retire from or stop playing a field sport."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
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        [
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        "(informal, sports) To retire from or stop playing a field sport."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
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        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
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      ],
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    }
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      "_dis1": "50 50",
      "word": "hang up one's fiddle"
    }
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      "form": "hung up one's boots",
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    }
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      ],
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        "to retire, call it a day"
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) to retire, call it a day"
      ],
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      ]
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        "en:Sports"
      ],
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        "To retire from or stop playing a field sport."
      ],
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          "retire",
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      ],
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        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
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    }
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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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