Definition of "jackbooted" []

• Wearing jackboots. (adjective)
• Cruelly and violently oppressive: "a revival of the aggressive, jack-booted militarism of the Thirties and Forties” ( Saturday Review). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Have his "jackbooted" ATF thugs burn down all of Tennessee?"
• "Under anarchy there would at least no longer be bullshit non-crimes like Failure to Obey a Police Officer a charge which is incomprehensible except as a supposed crime against the supposed authority of the State, and if some rogue security agency went ahead and tried to inflict this kind of jackbooted thuggery on an innocent man like Phil Sano, there would at least be the possibility of an effective recourse and for the violent creeps who attacked him to be held directly, individually accountable by competing agencies or by independent, grassroots alternatives."
• "The jackbooted thugs of Brussels were, we were told, going to "kill the internet"."