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Bootleg recording
Bootleg recording: unauthorized recording of a live musical performance (also unreleased outtakes and broadcasts). Defined by 17 U.S.C. §1101 (1994) and 18 U.S.C. §2319A; began as a mass trade with Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder (1969), now mirrored by official "bootleg" release series.
Boots (company)
Boots, also known as Boots the Chemists, is the United Kingdom's largest retail pharmacy chain, operating more than 1,800 stores from roots in a Nottingham herbalist shop founded in 1849.
Boots (poem)
"Boots" is an 1903 poem by Rudyard Kipling from The Five Nations, voicing a British infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War, built on the refrain "Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up an' down again" and the line "There's no discharge in the war."
Boots (TV series)
Boots is an eight-episode Netflix comedy-drama, premiered October 9, 2025, adapted from Greg Cope White's memoir The Pink Marine; created by Andy Parker, starring Miles Heizer, canceled December 2025 after one season.
Boots and Hearts Music Festival
Boots and Hearts Music Festival, also Boots and Hearts West, is Canada's largest camping country music festival, founded 2012 by Republic Live at Burl's Creek, Oro-Medonte, Ontario, with about 40,000 daily attendees and a 2026 Edmonton expansion.
Boots on the Ground (803Fresh song)
"Boots on the Ground" is a 2024 Southern soul single by 803Fresh (Douglas Furtick), produced by T Da Wizard, that went viral in 2025 through Tre Little's fan-clacking line dance and topped Billboard's Adult R&B Airplay and R&B Digital Song Sales charts.
Boots on the Ground (Massive Attack song)
"Boots on the Ground" is a 2026 protest single by Massive Attack and Tom Waits on Play It Again Sam, Massive Attack's first new music in six years and Waits' first recording since Bad As Me.
Boots Riley
Boots Riley (Raymond Riley, born 1971) is an Oakland rapper, activist, and filmmaker, founder of The Coup, writer-director of Sorry to Bother You (2018), creator of I'm a Virgo, and director of I Love Boosters (2026).
Boots theory
Boots theory is the idea that poverty forces people to buy cheap goods that cost more over time, named for a passage in Terry Pratchett's 1993 novel Men at Arms.
Bootstrap (front-end framework)
Bootstrap, also known as Twitter Bootstrap, is a free, open-source front-end framework created at Twitter by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, first released in 2011.
Bootstrap aggregating
Bootstrap aggregating, usually shortened to bagging, is a machine learning ensemble method introduced by Leo Breiman in 1996 that combines predictors trained on bootstrap samples and underlies random forests.
Bootstrap confidence interval
A bootstrap confidence interval is an interval constructed by resampling the data to approximate the sampling distribution of a statistic, a method introduced by Bradley Efron in 1979.
Bootstrap current
The bootstrap current is a toroidal electric current arising spontaneously in tokamak plasmas from pressure gradients and particle collisions, reducing the external current drive a fusion reactor needs.
Bootstrap Europe
Bootstrap Europe is a Luxembourg-based venture-debt fund manager founded in 2015 by Fatou Diagne and Stephanie Heller, which lends to European growth-stage technology and life-science companies.
Bootstrap inference
Bootstrap inference is a statistical method that estimates the sampling distribution of an estimator by resampling the observed data with replacement, introduced by Bradley Efron in 1979.
Bootstrap Protocol
The Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) is an IP/UDP network protocol defined in RFC 951 in 1985 that lets diskless clients discover their IP address and boot file, typically via TFTP.
Bootstrapping
Bootstrapping is a statistical method for estimating a statistic's distribution by repeatedly resampling the observed data instead of relying on analytic theory, introduced by Bradley Efron in 1979.
Bootstrapping (statistics)
Bootstrapping is a statistical method for estimating the distribution of a statistic by repeatedly resampling the observed data with replacement, introduced by Bradley Efron at Stanford University in 1979.
Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins (William Earl Collins, born 1951, Cincinnati) is an American funk bassist, singer, and producer who played in James Brown's J.B.'s, Parliament-Funkadelic, and Bootsy's Rubber Band, known for the Spacebass, "Bootzilla," a 1997 Rock Hall induction, and a 2001 Grammy for "Weapon of Choice."
Booty (Jennifer Lopez song)
Booty is a 2014 Jennifer Lopez song from her album A.K.A., originally featuring Pitbull and remixed with Iggy Azalea; the Azalea single peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 and its Hype Williams video drew over 30 million views in five days.
Booty shake
Booty shake: a dance movement shaking or vibrating the buttocks and hips; related to twerk, New Orleans bounce, and African diaspora booty dances such as Mapale, Mapouka, and Dancehall.
Bootylicious
Bootylicious: 2001 Destiny's Child song from Survivor, written by Beyoncé Knowles, Rob Fusari, Falonte Moore, and Stevie Nicks; samples Edge of Seventeen; fourth US number-one single.
Boøwy
Boøwy, also written Boowy, was a Japanese rock band active from 1981 to 1988 whose beat rock style shaped later Japanese rock and visual kei.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton is an American technology and consulting company providing services primarily to the US government. Founded in 1914 in Chicago, it is headquartered in McLean, Virginia.
Booz endormi
"Booz endormi" is an 1859 poem by Victor Hugo in La Légende des siècles, retelling the Book of Ruth, where Ruth lies at the sleeping Boaz's feet.
Boozefighters
The Boozefighters Motorcycle Club, founded in 1946 in Los Angeles by Wino Willie Forkner and other World War II veterans, is one of the oldest active motorcycle clubs.
BOP benchmark
The BOP benchmark, created in 2017 by Tomáš Hodaň and colleagues, is the standard evaluation framework for 6D object pose estimation, run through yearly BOP Challenges.
Bop House
Bop House is a Florida creator collective launched December 2024 by OnlyFans creators Sophie Rain and Aishah Sofey; eight women aged 19-24 in a rented mansion posting PG TikTok content that funnels viewers to OnlyFans, claiming $10 million first-month revenue.
Bop It
Bop It, a Hasbro Parker Brothers handheld electronic audio game created by Dan Klitsner (first released 1996/1997), issues voice commands like Bop it, Twist it, Pull it; over 30 million sold, with Solo and Pass It modes.
Bopai
Bopai (博湃养车) was a Beijing-based door-to-door car-maintenance startup founded by Ji Wei, which raised $18 million from JD and BitAuto before collapsing in December 2015.