boot upstairs
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Synonym of kick upstairs.
Example Sentences
- "Faced with slowing foreign investment and a revenue squeeze, Pranab Mukherjee, until recently the finance minister, bizarrely attacked foreign investors, such as Vodafone, and retrospectively tried to rewrite tax rules. That spread uncertainty. Fortunately in July he was booted upstairs to become president."