jackbooted in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Whoever says things like this is a brownshirted, jackbooted thug.
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These are not a bunch of jackbooted right-wingers or whatever people think.
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This was an absolute dictatorship that crushed this island beneath their jackbooted heel.
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First we had the human rights commissions who literally jackbooted freedom of expression.
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Jackbooted security goons vs. baby-punching souvenir-monger?
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Schools require discipline, but the jackbooted kind is hardly going to produce a creative learning environment or enhance the quality of pedagogy.
jamaica-gleaner.com
Other divas project invulnerability, striding through videos like jackbooted superheroines.
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If they want it, let their faceless, jackbooted bureaucrats come and get it.
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