Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Slyboots"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slyboots \Sly"boots`\, n.
A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.
Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. --Goldsmith.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
slyboots
n : a shifty deceptive person [syn: {dodger}, {fox}]
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