Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🚗 A wheel clamper 💻 Attack tool 🖥️ Startup program
booter

booter

8.9
A person who puts a wheel clamp on parked cars to enforce parking rules
  • noun
  • /ˈbuːtər/
  • US
translation icon : aparcador
  • The booter placed a clamp on the illegally parked car early in the morning.

Examples

  • Drivers were careful to avoid the booter when parking near the stadium.

  • After receiving several complaints, the city hired a new booter to patrol the downtown area.

  • The booter arrived to enforce the parking rules.

  • Many booters patrol the streets to ensure compliance.

  • The booter attached a wheel clamp to the vehicle parked in front of the fire hydrant.

  • To prevent illegal parking, the booter routinely checks for violations in the parking lot.

  • Everyone knew to watch out for the booter during major events, as they would be enforcing parking fines.

Synonyms

enforcer
vsbooter
  • NSFW
27 7.2

A person who uses force or threats to carry out unpleasant tasks for someone in power

performs duty by immobilizing vehicles and collecting fines rather than using force
meter maid
vsbooter
  • Archaic
12 6.8

A woman who gives parking tickets to illegally parked cars

attaches wheel clamps to immobilize vehicles and collect fines

Surface Forms

booter singular
booters plural

Morphology

booter = boot (opaque) = boot + er

The agentive form is regular, but it depends on the specialized parking sense of 'boot', which most learners will not know from the common word 'boot'.

Etymology

The word booter comes from boot, the name for the clamp put on a car wheel to stop it moving, so a booter is the person who puts the 'boot' on a vehicle.