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Definitions of boom
  1. noun
    a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set

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  2. verb
    make a resonant sound, like artillery
    "His deep voice boomed through the hall"

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  3. verb
    hit hard

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    hit
  4. noun
    a deep prolonged loud noise

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  5. verb
    grow vigorously
    "business is booming"

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  6. noun
    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"
  7. verb
    be the case that thunder is being heard

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  8. verb
    make a deep hollow sound
    "Her voice booms out the words of the song"

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  9. noun
    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
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  10. noun
    a state of economic prosperity
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Definition that contains boom
  • thunder a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
  • crane lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis
  • buster a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically
  • dawson a town in northwestern Canada in the Yukon on the Yukon River; a boom town around 1900 when gold was discovered in the Klondike
  • derrick a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom
  • boomer a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
  • kylie an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex
  • boomerang return to the initial position from where it came; like a boomerang
  • kiley an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex
  • tinnitus a ringing or booming sensation in one or both ears; a symptom of an ear infection or Meniere's disease
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