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UK
/bˈuːm/
]
[ US /ˈbum/ ]
[ US /ˈbum/ ]
NOUN
- a state of economic prosperity
- any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
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a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
VERB
-
make a resonant sound, like artillery
His deep voice boomed through the hall -
hit hard
He smashed a 3-run homer -
make a deep hollow sound
Her voice booms out the words of the song -
be the case that thunder is being heard
Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed -
grow vigorously
business is booming
The deer population in this town is thriving
How To Use boom In A Sentence
- Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
- Kaboom, then home for chow, a few beers and a couple of frames of bowling. CORMORANT
- At the root of the problem is nothing so mundane as access to the hills and glens but the booming industry in Scottish barony titles that sell on average for £55,000 each.
- The decade following saw the first railway train arrive from the East, the first C.P.R. steamship anchored in port, the Klondike "boom," and the great mining industries of British Columbia well under way. Canadian Cities of Romance
- It was cashing in a spectacular consumer boom.
- While things are bad now, I've noticed that blue collar families that had jobs during the boom, but couldn't afford to get into one of the overprices houses are now snatching up foreclosures, fixing them up and living the dream. Current.com top stories
- Hopefully, some of the more level-headed members of the council can prevail and make the Boom Town fiasco a bust.
- NHS penpusher boom: Wages bill is up £78m as 'costly' drugs are vetoed Home | Mail Online
- The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester. Times, Sunday Times
- Suddenly a deep voice boomed out from some of the trees nearby.
