boot one

English

Verb

boot one (third-person singular simple present boots one, present participle booting one, simple past and past participle booted one)

1. (baseball, slang) To make a mistake.
   • 1998, Eliot Asinof, Man on Spikes, page 68:

     […] to jeer at him when he booted one or fanned with a crucial run on base.

   • 2002, Brooke Horvath, Tim Wiles, Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, page 92:

     […] he played short with sweet ease, and looked good even when he booted one, […]