As a verb, to reboot is to restart a computer or system so it begins working fresh again. As a noun, it can also mean a new version of a story, movie, or series that starts the story over.
From *re-* (again) + *boot*, from computing slang *to boot* meaning ‘to start up a computer’, itself from ‘bootstrap’ (to pull oneself up by one’s bootstraps). The idea is starting from the very beginning of the loading process.
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