Well attestedNamed from the place
Denver boot
noun · first attested 1955
Denver clamped cars instead of towing them, and the city kept the credit.
A clamp locked onto a car wheel to immobilize the vehicle until fines are paid.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1955
- Part of speech
- noun
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Denver
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Denver boot
The first clamp is credited to Frank Marugg, a Denver musician and patternmaker who supplied equipment to a police force tired of towing, in the mid 1950s. The name spread with the device, which is called a wheel clamp almost everywhere outside the United States.
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