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The phrase "a boot up" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of starting up a computer or device, referring to the process of loading the operating system.
Example: "After a quick boot up, the computer was ready for use."
Alternatives: "a startup" or "a system boot".
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The last thing we expected from a Radio 3 programme was someone delivering a boot up the backside of Radio 3 but boy, did it feel good.
It's been hailed as one of the greatest zombie games of all time and a boot up the rotten arse to a genre that's currently being flogged to (un death.
But perhaps India's tycoons could employ their celebrity usefully, by spelling out in public how a more rational tax system would spur growth, or how more investment in supermarkets, even by foreigners, could lower food prices, or how giving public-sector monopolies a boot up the backside might improve ordinary Indians' lives.
You've got a better idea: Why use a thermometer when you can stick a boot up their butt?
Ike, you just crushed the Third Reich, why not follow it up by putting a boot up Stalin's ass? Final Grade: B+.
So that the game makes it so damn fiddly to line a boot up with an enemy's supposed-to-be-broken jaw is just, what kind of design is this?
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In particular, the update restores the start button and allows a computer to boot up with a traditional desktop interface.
Computer taking an age to boot up?
Gamers often align into Clans, and will readily boot up a game whenever they see a familiar screenname pop online.
These two publicly available AMIs allow users to boot up a cluster to analyze cryo-EM data in a few short steps.
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