Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boot fair

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.13 in modern English

Syllables: boot -fair
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A market fair with sellers operating out of the boots (trunks) of their cars; a market requiring little more than a meet.

Example Sentences

"Near-synonyms: swap meet, flea market"
"And then when the boot fair phenomenon hit us, in the — I think it was in the eighties, you know, not that long ago — and I saw these strange objects, rusty objects, poking their heads out of rusty buckets. I was hooked."

Inflected Forms

boot fairs (plural)

Synonyms

car boot sale swap meet flea market

Questions

What does boot fair mean?: A market fair with sellers operating out of the boots (trunks) of their cars; a market requiring little more than a meet.

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