[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a loop of leather or cloth sewn at the top rear, or sometimes on each side, of a bootnone facilitate pulling it on.", "a means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something:He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["relying entirely on 's efforts and resources:The business was a bootstrap operation for the first ten years.", "self-generating or self-sustaining:a bootstrap process."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["Computers. boot1(defs21, 26) boot1(defs21, 26).", "to help (oneself) without the aid of others:She spent years bootstrapping herself through college."]}]