boot camp

boot camp
boot camp by 1941, U.S. Marines slang, said to be from BOOT (Cf. boot) (n.) as slang for "recruit," which supposedly dates from the Spanish-American War and is a synecdoche from boots, leggings worn by U.S. sailors.

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