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Boom

noun
1.
A deep prolonged loud noise.  Synonyms: roar, roaring, thunder.
2.
A state of economic prosperity.
3.
A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money).  Synonyms: bonanza, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall.
4.
A pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set.  Synonym: microphone boom.
5.
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.
verb
(past & past part. boomed, pres. part. booming)
1.
Make a resonant sound, like artillery.  Synonym: din.
2.
Hit hard.  Synonyms: blast, nail, smash.
3.
Be the case that thunder is being heard.  Synonym: thunder.
4.
Make a deep hollow sound.  Synonym: boom out.
5.
Grow vigorously.  Synonyms: expand, flourish, thrive.  "Business is booming"



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"Boom" Quotes from Famous Books



... boys made out the bulk of a schooner on their port bow, her sails slatting and rigging flying as she came up into the wind. As the Fortuna fell off they looked at the schooner and saw the main boom swinging across the deck, strike a man standing ...
— Boy Scouts in Southern Waters • G. Harvey Ralphson
... with it the boom of the night shift setting off its morning blasts, and clearing the way for the day shift that would follow in sinking the hole that must inevitably betray the dishonesty of the stern mine master at the foot of the hill. Dick had not slept, and ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... out. They skin the farmers somehow on the fare out here. That's their business, according to the lady. They prowl around through the government plats till they spot a few thousand acres of land in a chunk; they take a look at it, maybe, and then they boom it like hell, and get them eastern marks hooked—them with money, the lady said. Then they ship a bunch out here, locate 'em on the land and leave it up to THEM, whether they scratch a living or not. She said they urge the rubes to bring all the stock they can, ...
— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower
... shaped and fitted with more judgment than any I had before seen. They are rowed by paddles, such as we had generally met with; and some of them have a light triangular sail, like those of the Friendly Islands, extending to a mast and boom. The ropes used for their boats, and the smaller cords for their fishing-tackle, are strong ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 • Robert Kerr
... boom of the serpent within the adjacent house, and the lesser strains of the fiddler, reached the spot as an accompaniment to the surging hiss of the flying rain on the sod, its louder beating on the cabbage-leaves of the garden, on the eight or ten beehives ...
— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy


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