wheel clamp BrE
Denver boot AmE slang
boot AmE slang ***

Have you ever seen a taxi wearing a Denver Boot?

They have even introduced the Denver boot (which Russians seem to think was invented here) to lock illegally parked cars in place.

The Denver Boot, a car-disabling device was first used in Denver.

A wheel clamp, also known as wheel boot or Denver boot, is a device that is designed to prevent vehicles from being moved.

In Mansfield, officials are eager to see what impact the Denver boot, a device that is locked on a car's wheels to immobilize it, will have on collections.

LAST fall New Britain paid $1,875 for five Denver boots, devices that immobilize illegally parked cars until their owners pay outstanding parking tickets.

In Mansfield, University of Connecticut officials will put the Denver boot into service on Thursday, to immobilize cars of anyone with more than five delinquent tickets.

Originally known as the auto immobilizer, the wheel clamp or Denver boot was invented in 1953 by Frank Marugg of Denver Colorado.

Placing a police identification card on the dash of the Escort, he locked the car and left, hoping some under-observant rookie wouldn't clamp a Denver Boot on his tires.

In the United States, these devices became known as a "Denver boot" after the city of Denver, Colorado was the first in the country to employ them, mostly to force the payment of outstanding parking tickets.

He was wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt and a blue tie, as if it were summer; when he stood up, he was several inches shorter than Suter, but he had a handshake like a Denver boot.

The big brute was shadowed by all sorts of posses, vigilantes, citizen patrols, watchdogs, everything but the dreaded Denver Boot, the clamp that the police attach to illegally parked cars, but the Rangers had to be cautious.

Last Tuesday, I watched Kevin McHale fall to the parquet floor and instinctively wrap himself around Rick Mahorn's feet, neutralizing Mahorn from a fast break, like the infamous Denver boot used to immobilize a scofflaw's car.

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