Definitions for boom

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IPA: /bum/

Boom is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in boom (bmoo).

Definitions for boom

noun

1. a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.
2. the resonant cry of a bird or animal.
3. a buzzing, humming, or droning, as of a bee or beetle.
4. a rapid increase in price, development, numbers, etc.:
5. a period of rapid economic growth, prosperity, high wages and prices, and relatively full employment.
6. a rise in popularity, as of a political candidate.
7. Nautical. any of various more or less horizontal spars or poles for extending the feet of sails, especially fore-and-aft sails, for handling cargo, suspending mooring lines alongside a vessel, pushing a vessel away from wharves, etc.
8. Aeronautics. an outrigger used on certain aircraft for connecting the tail surfaces to the fuselage. a maneuverable and retractable pipe on a tanker aircraft for refueling another aircraft in flight. chord1 (def 4).
9. a chain, cable, series of connected floating timbers, or the like, serving to obstruct navigation, confine floating timber, etc.
10. the area thus shut off.
11. Machinery. a spar or beam projecting from the mast of a derrick for supporting or guiding the weights to be lifted.
12. (on a motion-picture or television stage) a spar or beam on a mobile crane for holding or manipulating a microphone or camera.

Idioms

1. lower the boom, to take decisive punitive action:

adjective

1. caused by or characteristic of a boom:

verb (used with object)

1. to give forth with a booming sound (often followed by out):
2. to boost; campaign for vigorously:
3. to extend or position, as a sail (usually followed by out or off).
4. to manipulate (an object) by or as by means of a crane or derrick.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a deep, prolonged, resonant sound.
2. to move with a resounding rush or great impetus.
3. to progress, grow, or flourish vigorously, as a business or a city:
4. to sail at full speed.

Origin of boom

1400-50; 1910-15 for def 10; late Middle English bombon, bummyn to buzz; cognate with Dutch bommen, German bummen, orig. imitative

Examples for boom

The boom should be made a trifle smaller in diameter than the mast.

Christie has a lot riding on fulfilling his promise of shepherding Atlantic City into a third boom era.

The boom of the huge mortars on the boats there sounded above everything.

Admiral Hobson, who broke the boom at Vigo in 1702, belonged to the same calling.

And so there has been a boom in placing solar fields on top of landfills.

In a new video, the Kentucky Republican brags about lowering the boom on sexual harasser Bob Packwood.

For most African countries, the past two decades have been boom time.

With grains that feed the Cannon's breath, And boom his sentences of death!

What a thin tinkle it made out there, yet how deep was its boom within!

“It was so opulent that no one ever thought it would sink, then boom—it was gone,” says Conway.