'jackboot tactics' definitions:
Definition of 'jackboot tactics'
From: GCIDE
- jackboot tactics \jackboot tactics\ n. [from the jackboots worn as part of the uniform of police in certain totalitarian countries.] Harsh strongarm tactics; repressive, bullying and militaristic tactics like those used in authoritarian or totalitarian countries; -- used opprobriously, and often in hyperbolic exaggeration of police tactics in democratic countries. [PJC]