boot fair

English

Noun

boot fair (plural boot fairs)

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boot fair

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

   Synonym: car boot sale

   Near-synonyms: swap meet, flea market

   • 2015, Ron Geesin, Excerpt from: Ron Geesin: An Improvised Life‎:

     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.