To start a computer using its bootstrap procedure(verb)
To start, using its bootstrap procedure.(verb)
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Use "boot up" in a sentence
"Maybe the USMC fighter-pilot thing, but now he recalled after Will and the boys had put the old USMC boot up the ass of the whatever-they-weres from wherever-they-came, the big ships crashed and burned."