Usually means: Loud, sudden sound or increase.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. boom: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. boom, boom, boom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boom, boom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boom, boom: Wordnik
  7. boom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Boom: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. boom: Wiktionary
  10. boom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. boom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. boom: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. boom: Dictionary.com
  14. boom (n.), boom (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. boom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. BOOM, Boom (Anastacia song), Boom (Anjulie song), Boom (Mario song), Boom (P.O.D. song), Boom (Snoop Dogg song), Boom (T-Pain song), Boom (TV series), Boom (The Sonics album), Boom (Walker Hayes album), Boom (X Ambassadors song), Boom (containment), Boom (entertainer), Boom (film), Boom (navigational barrier), Boom (play), Boom (sailing), Boom (ship), Boom (source port), Boom (windsurfing), Boom, Boom, The Boom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Boom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. boom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. boom: Rhymezone
  20. Boom (m), boom, boom, boom, boom (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. boom: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. boom: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Boom: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. boom: Free Dictionary
  25. boom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. boom: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Boom: Inflation Glossary
  5. Boom: Investopedia
  6. Boom, boom: Legal dictionary
  7. Boom, Boom: Financial dictionary
  8. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Boom, boom: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. BOOM: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. boom: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. boom, boom, boom, boom: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. boom: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Boom: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Boom, Boom, boom, the boom: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Boom: Sports Definitions

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Boom: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  3. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  4. boom: Master Mariner
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Boom: Construction Glossary
  7. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
verb:  Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) boom.
verb:  (aviation) To subject to a sonic boom.
verb:  (slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
verb:  To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
verb:  (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
verb:  (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
verb:  (dated) To move quickly, often while making a booming sound.
noun:  A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
noun:  A rapid expansion or increase.
noun:  (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
noun:  One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
noun:  (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
noun:  (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
noun:  A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
noun:  (by extension) A microphone supported on such a pole.
noun:  A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
noun:  (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
noun:  A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
noun:  A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
noun:  The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
noun:  A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
verb:  To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
verb:  (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
noun:  A Belgian town and municipality in the southwest of the Flemish province of Antwerp.
noun:  (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom. [(physics, aerodynamics) The audible effect of a shock wave in the air, especially one caused by an aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound.]

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