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noun

Booming n. The act of producing a hollow or roaring sound; a violent rushing with heavy roar; as, the booming of the sea; a deep, hollow sound; as, the booming of bitterns.

verb

Boom v. t. (Naut.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole; as, to boom out a sail; to boom off a boat.

Boom v. t. To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator. (Colloq. U. S.)

Boom v. i. (past & past part. boomed, pres. part. booming)

To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. "At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone."

To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. "Alarm guns booming through the night air."

To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. "She comes booming down before it."

To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.

adjective

Booming adj.

Rushing with violence; swelling with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. "O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar."

Advancing or increasing amid noisy excitement; as, booming prices; booming popularity. (Colloq. U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Booming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Booming" Quotes from Famous Books

... on these windy uplands, and indoors one still sits close to the fire. These are the days of booming gales over the sheepwolds, and the afternoon ride with Shotover becomes an adventure. I am not one of those who shirk bicycling in a wind. Give me a two-mile spin with the gust astern, just to loosen the muscles and sweep the ...

— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley

... the programme with grace and only a very few noticeable blunders. Tommy Downey, ears rampant, a tooth missing and a face radiant with joy and absolute self-confidence, mounted the bunting and flag-draped stage and in a booming voice wholly out of proportion to his midget dimensions and in ten dashing verses assured those assembled that the man who wore the shoulder straps was a fine enough fellow to be sure, but that it was after all the man without them who had ...

— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

... prudent had not yet succeeded in entirely plundering their companions, when the distant booming of cannon was heard from the river. Instantly, accoutred as they were in their holiday and fantastic costumes, the soldiers, no longer mutinous, were summoned from banquet and gaming-table, and were ordered forth upon the dykes. The patriot Admiral Boisot, ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... room to which all the time he seemed to be gently leading her. And then a flood of strange, alien recollections and realisations seemed to bring her from a better place back to a worse,—the sound of a passing taxicab, the distant booming of Big Ben, sounds of the world outside, the actual day-by-day world, with its day-by-day code of morals, the world in which she lived, and her friends, and all that had made life for her. She drew away, and he watched ...

— The Great Prince Shan • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

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