boomn.1
/buːm/, U.S. /bum/ A loud, deep sound with much resonance or humming effect, as of a distant cannon, a large bell, etc.: also the usual word for the cry of the bittern.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > deep resonant sound > [noun]
boom?a1500
croona1522
booming1774
bong1855
whoom1875
whoomph1900
?a1500 Frere & Boye 176 in J. Ritson Pieces Anc. Pop. Poetry (1833) 41 Tempre thy bombe, he sayd, for shame.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §151 A Pillar of Iron..which, if you had struck, it would make a little flat noise in the Room where it was struck; but a great bomb in the Chamber beneath.
1795 R. Southey Vision Maid of Orleans i. xv The bittern's boom was heard; hoarse, heavy, deep.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) II. 301 This evening boom of beetles; this nocturnal buz of gnats.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton liv. 341 The loud boom of a gun struck upon my ear.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 114 The dull boom of the disturbed sea.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 232 The great bell of St. Peter's tolled with a deep boom.
Compounds
boom box n. slang (originally U.S.) = ghetto blaster n. at ghetto n. and adj. Compounds 2.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun]
talking machine1844
recorder1867
phonograph1877
dictating machine1878
melograph1879
melodiographa1884
graphophone1886
photographophone1901
auxetophone1904
Dictaphone1906
telediphone1931
transcriber1931
wire recorder1934
sound truck1936
high fidelity1938
Soundscriber1946
player1948
rig1950
transcriptor1957
unit1966
sequencer1975
boom box1981
ghetto blaster1983
beat-box1985
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > electronic > other electronic equipment
amplifier1914
speaker1926
cardioid1939
amp1945
boom box1981
ghetto blaster1983
trigger1986
1978 Time 23 July 60/1 Their ears are tuned constantly to what they call the box... For a mere £55 a box-toter can get a General Electric tape model... It is called Loudmouth.]
1981 N.Y. Times 5 June d5/4 The portable stereo craze actually started three or four years ago with the so-called boom boxes.
1985 Washington Post 26 June c10 How about a law against playing ‘boom boxes’ in public places?
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colloquial. Used to convey that something is extremely sudden, surprising, or successful.
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1955 B. Schulberg Waterfront xii. 176 The third time I tried it the gag worked and boom! out shoots the drawer.
1992 Olympics 92 (BBC Sports) 59/3 Okay, here's the ball in bounds, the Hail Mary pass and—boom!—he misses the basket and the game is apparently over.
2013 @freemarissanow 18 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 22 Mar. 2021) BOOM! We reached our second goal of $20K!
2020 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 24 Oct. Squish some grapes in the presence of yeast and boom..you've got wine.
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Representing a loud, deep, resonant sound. Often reduplicated, or in combination with other words representing similar sounds.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > deep resonant sound > [interjection]
boom1827
whoomph1900
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 658/2 Boom—boom—boom went his gong, with a loudness which nearly deafened me.
1910 R. J. Wilkinson Papers on Malay Subj.: Life & Customs Pt. III 8 The house is falling, the house is falling; crash, bang, boom!
1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells viii. 84 Bang! Boom! His big fists set the cups a-dance.
2009 M. J. Dougherty War Machines 12 Point your cannon at the enemy. Light the fuse and stand back. BOOM!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
boomn.2
/buːm/, U.S. /bum/ Nautical.† 2. A pole set up to mark the course of the channel or deep water. ? Obsolete.Not in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
1.
a. ‘A long spar run out from different places in the ship, to extend or boom out the foot of a particular sail; as jib-boom, flying jib-boom, studding-sail booms.’ Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > pole controlling position of sail
boom1663
1663 Let. 14 Jan. in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) I. 191 The violence of it snapt off their boom by the board.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) i. xvi. 76 A Boom, a long Pole used to spread out the Clew of the Studding-sail, &c.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 22 She sail'd with..a Shoulder of Mutton Sail; and the Boom gib'd over the Top of the Cabbin.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. v. 341 The mast, yard, boom, and outriggers, are all made of bamboo.
1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 252 With broken booms and fragments of the wreck.
b. plural. That part of a ship's deck where the spare spars are stowed.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > upper deck > parts of
waist1495
quarterdeck1622
gangway1700
main deck1730
well-deck1759
booms1764
no man's land1769
1764 W. Falconer Shipwreck (new ed.) ii. 53 The yards secure along the booms were laid.
1803 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 205 Hardy [is] rigging the main-yard on the booms.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xiv. 210 Mr. Chucks then sat down upon the fore-end of the booms by the funnel.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Booms, a space where the spare spars are stowed; the launch being generally stowed between them.
c. Aeronautics. (See quot. 1916.)
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > structural framework > specific supporting tail
tail boom1913
boom1916
1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 135 Boom, a term usually applied to the long spars joining the tail of a ‘pusher’ aeroplane to its main lifting surface.
d. A movable bar supporting a microphone or camera. Also attributive.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > production of television broadcast > [noun] > camera movement
boom1931
rostrum1935
tilting1938
tilt1959
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > camera > support for
boom1931
rostrum1935
crane1937
pan head1940
1931 L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures 377 Microphone boom, crane-like device for supporting and manipulating microphone.
1932 Wireless World 10 Feb. 146/1 A microphone suspended on a boom.
1958 Manch. Guardian 10 June 6/2 The narrative swings as if on a studio boom-arm from character to character.
1959 Viewpoint July 34 The boom operator has found his first boom, or microphone, shadow.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > pole marking channel
boom1705
1705 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum (at cited word) Boom..The Poles with Bushes or Baskets on the Top, which are placed to direct how to steer into a Channel are called Booms, and by some Beacons.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Boom,..a pole with bushes or baskets, set up as a mark to shew the sailors how to steer in the channel, when a country is overflown. [Also in mod. Dicts.]
3.
a. A bar or barrier consisting of a strong chain or line of connected spars, pieces of timber bound together, etc., stretched across a river or the mouth of a harbour to obstruct navigation.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > barriers in water
boom1645
estacade1670
water bar1683
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ v. vi. 6 The Sea-works and boomes were traced out by Marquis Spinola.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 93 Before his coming the Cardinal had finisht his prodigious Boom and Barricado [at Rochelle] through which it was impossible to break.
1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 549 The Irish had laid a great chain with a boom acrosse the river.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant x. 37 Anciently a Chain or Bomb lay across from Castle to Castle, to prevent the passing of Ships.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Boom,..a strong chain or cable, on which are fastened a number of poles..to prevent the enemies ships of war from entering [a harbour].
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii Large pieces of fir wood strongly bound together, formed a boom which was more than a quarter of a mile in length.
b. plural. The floating timbers placed between portions of the lines of piles marking the regatta course at Henley-on-Thames, to prevent the encroachment of boats during a race.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > course > mark on course > at Henley-on-Thames regatta
booms1899
1899 Daily News 5 July 4/7 It will be impossible to pronounce definitely on the success of the booms until the regatta is in full swing.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 306/2.
4.
a. In the American lumber-trade: A line of floating timber stretched across a river or round an area of water to retain floating logs.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > string of logs on river
boom1702
boom fence1848
boom-stick1850
sheer-boom1875
string1878
brail1879
jam-boom1879
boom timber1883
boom log1945
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. App. 66/1 She stole along by the River side, until she came to a Boom, where she passed over.
1829 ‘D. Conway’ Journey Norway 190 The booms that are placed across the stream nearer its mouth.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 32 Showing no traces of man but some low boom in a distant cove, reserved for spring use.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vi. 105 The inhabitants visit the beach to see what they have caught as regularly as..a lumberer his boom.
1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 20.
b. boom fender, boom glancing, or sheer boom, a boom erected to guide logs in the desired direction. U.S.
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1896 Monthly Weather Rev. (U.S.) 24 407/1 The driving of piles..to hold a ‘sheer boom’ for the purpose of running the logs.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
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boom boat n.
boom-chain n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > means of securing logs
logging-chain1825
swifter1870
boom-chain1883
wrapper1901
catpiece1905
four paws1905
1883 J. Fraser Shanty, Forest, & River Life 281 The first business of the drive is to..confine them there by long half-square logs called ‘boom timber’, fastened at the ends by ‘boom chains’.
1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 31 Aug. 16/3 He was an excellent swimmer but was carrying boom chains around his shoulders as he went out on the booms.
boom fence n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > string of logs on river
boom1702
boom fence1848
boom-stick1850
sheer-boom1875
string1878
brail1879
jam-boom1879
boom timber1883
boom log1945
1848 H. D. Thoreau Ktaadn, & Maine Woods in Union Mag. Sept. 134/2 Surrounded by a boom fence of floating logs.
boom log n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > string of logs on river
boom1702
boom fence1848
boom-stick1850
sheer-boom1875
string1878
brail1879
jam-boom1879
boom timber1883
boom log1945
1945 Reader's Digest Aug. 86 He and Dad are looking for boom logs.
boom-man n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > one who
rafter1741
driver1825
river-driver1825
rear crew1851
loadera1862
skidder1870
floater1889
river hog1902
river rat1905
boom-man1908
river pig1908
rearing crew1944
1908 M. A. Grainger Woodsmen of West 28 The work for a practised boom-man, was now to take a long, light pole, and jumping upon a floating log, to stand upon the log and pole it into the boom-stick enclosure.
boom-stick n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > string of logs on river
boom1702
boom fence1848
boom-stick1850
sheer-boom1875
string1878
brail1879
jam-boom1879
boom timber1883
boom log1945
1850 S. Judd Richard Edney xvi. 207 They found Chuk in trouble; his guys had parted, and his boom-sticks were broken.
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 18 June 6 It shall be unlawful for any person other than the owner thereof..to take possession of..any log, spar, boomstick, etc...in any waters in this State [Michigan].
boom timber n. (In sense 4.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > string of logs on river
boom1702
boom fence1848
boom-stick1850
sheer-boom1875
string1878
brail1879
jam-boom1879
boom timber1883
boom log1945
1883Boom timber [see boom-chain n.].
C2.
boom-boat n. a boat stowed on the booms (see 1b).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel used at log booms
boom-boat1966
1966 Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. June 214/3 Log booms, loose logs, and boom boats were swept out of the bay.
1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 Sept. 10/2 Mainland Prince had been en route up coast to pick up a tow, with a boom boat tied astern.
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boom-brace pendant n. ‘a rope attached to the extremity of a studding-sail boom, used to counteract the pressure of the sail upon the boom’ (Smyth).
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boom-cover n. a cover for the spars when stowed on deck.
boom end v. (transitive) to run out a boom or spar at the end of a yard so as to extend the foot of a sail.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > set sails in specific manner
to boom out1627
boom end1890
goose-wing1920
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. I. viii. 164 Then boom-ending her fore-topmast studdingsail she backed her main topsail.
boom-ended adj. having the studding-sail booms rigged in, so that their ends do not project beyond the yardarms.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adjective] > having booms rigged in
boom-ended1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvii. 90 The studding-sail halyards were let go, and the yards boom-ended.
boom-iron n. an iron ring fitted on the yardarm, through which the studding-sail boom slides when rigged out or in; a similar ring by which the flying jib-boom is secured to the jib-boom, or this to the bowsprit.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > yard > fittings on yards
boom-iron1769
ferrule1794
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Iron-work A boom-iron..is employed to connect two cylindrical pieces of wood together, when the one is used as a continuation of the other.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. viii. 228 A tail block was attached to the boom iron, at the outer extremity of each fore-yard-arm.
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boom-jigger n. a tackle for rigging the top-mast studding-sail booms out or in.
boom mat n. (cf. mat n.1 3).
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1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 182 In making a heavy boom mat a fiddle is used instead of a loom.
boom net n. a fishing-net connected with a boom.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > fixed net
stall net1246
trink1311
set net1481
trinkerc1485
pitch1523
half-net1538
trink-net1584
stop-net1634
toot-net1805
yair-net1805
stob-net1806
seta1808
stake-net1836
barrier-net1884
boom net1925
1925 Glasgow Herald 25 Aug. 5 The relationships of the young year classes caught by boom-net and seine-net to the mature herring in the drift-net fishery.
boom-sail n. a sail (foresail or mainsail) which is set to a boom instead of to a yard (opposed to square foresail or mainsail).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set to a boom
boom-sail1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Chandeliers de petite batiments, the crutches fixed on the stern or quarter of a boom-sail vessel.
1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer III. i. 34 She had a square mainsail, boom mainsail, and jib.
1881 Daily Tel. 28 Jan. The propeller is fast taking the place of the old boom-foresail.
boom-sheet n. a sheet fastened to a boom.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace
sheet1336
swing-rope1336
shoot1405
mainbrace1485
mainsheet1485
top-sheet1485
smite1494
tailing-rope1495
tail-rope1495
brace1626
stern-sheets1626
trimmers1630
fore-sheet1669
jib-sheet1825
boom-sheet1836
1836 F. Marryat Pirate viii Ease off the boom sheet.
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boom-spar n. see bomespar n.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
boomn.3
/buːm/, U.S. /bum/ Originally U.S.
1.
a. A start of commercial activity, as when a new book, the shares of a commercial undertaking, or the like ‘go off’ with a ‘boom’; a rapid advance in prices; a sudden bound of activity in any business or speculation.
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society > trade and finance > trading conditions > [noun] > supply and demand or market > state of the market > specific state of market
good cheapc1325
great cheapc1375
bust1842
softness1872
boom1875
sacrifice market1888
buyers' market1926
seller's market1934
1875 Scribner's Mag. July 277 in J. S. Farmer Slang Another boom in prison is to be looked for.
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 19 Dec. There has not been the boom upon lumber experienced in many other articles of merchandise.
1880 World 3 Nov. 5 The election of the American President is expected to be followed by a ‘boom’ that will take up prices.
1884 St. James's G. 26 Jan. 4/1 With the revival of prosperity in the United States the great boom in railway properties set in.
1884 Times 28 Nov. 4 Building ‘Boom’ in the United States.
1884 Marston Frank's Ranche 36 One railroad spoils a town, two bring it to par again, and three make a ‘boom’.
1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby ii. 31 The Land Boom—‘the Boom’, as it is always called..had a most potentially humanizing effect on the people.
1936 M. Plowman Faith called Pacifism 28 The people of this country were enjoying a post-war boom.
1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 88/2 Thus the uranium boom began.
1966 Economist 19 Nov. 778 The country is in boom and therefore deficit.
b. boom and (or) bust: a period of great prosperity followed by a severe depression. Originally U.S.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > a rise in prosperity > followed by adversity or setback
boom and (or) bust1943
1943 H. S. Canby Walt Whitman iii. 18 The building trade, as usual, suffered from boom-and-bust.
1947 D. Riesman in Yale Law Jrnl. Dec. 194 The luxury market would be..entitled..to its privilege of boom and bust.
1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 July 502/1 Cataclysmic alternatives—destruction or utopia, boom or bust.
2. The effective launching of anything with éclat upon the market, or upon public attention; an impetus given to any movement, or enterprise; the vigorous ‘running’ or writing-up of a candidate for an election; a vigorously worked movement in favour of a candidate or ‘cause’.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [noun] > ostentatious or extravagant advertising
puff1732
boom1879
splurge1960
1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 26 Dec. The Grant ‘Boom’ may be succeeded by the Sherman ‘Boom’.
1884 Reading Morning Herald 15 Apr. Blaine's book was issued..just at the critical moment in his boom for the Presidency.
1884 Lisbon (Dakota Territory) Star 10 Oct. How Electioneering Booms are Worked Up by the Faithful.
3. A rush made by ‘boomers’ or settlers into a newly opened district or region of Indian land.
ΚΠ
1891 Daily News 23 Sept. 5/1 The ‘boom’ of 1889 was the occupation of part of the above named district by settlers who were lucky enough to be first on the spot.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.
ΚΠ
1886 Leslie's Pop. Monthly 21 306/1 Cities..whose inhabitants had yet to be gathered in from the four corners of the earth by boom magic.
1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 23 The old town of San Juan Capistrano I found had been divided in the ‘boom’ times.
1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. xiii. 138 The boom period in 1928.
1969 Scotsman 25 Apr. 9/3 The country's two boom areas—the South-east of England and West Midlands.
b.
boom price n.
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1902 Daily Chron. 24 Mar. 3/5 The boom prices did not come off.
boom value n.
ΚΠ
1897 Daily News 23 June 15/2 Supposing..that you had a boom time..and your trustees lent on the boom values.
C2.
boom city n. = boom town n.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > prosperous place
boom town1896
boom city1904
1904 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 14 June 6 No ‘boom city’ of the West can boast such a record of amazing..growth.
1905 Daily Chron. 7 Nov. 4/4 Such..are the common incidents of a boom city.
boom town n. one that owes its origin, growth, or prosperity to a boom in a particular trade, mining, etc.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > prosperous place
boom town1896
boom city1904
1896 Chautauquan 23 219/1 Who first began to talk about..‘boom’ towns?
1906 N.Y. Evening Post 4 Aug. 4 Quite as melancholy..are the frame-built ‘boom’ towns of the West, located where the railroad was once expected to go, but did not.
1955 Times 20 May 14/1 Some call Wolverhampton a ‘boom town’. There are full employment, high wages, and no industrial unrest.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
boomv.1
/buːm/, U.S. /bum/ 1.
a. intransitive. To hum or buzz, as a bee or beetle; to make a loud, deep sound with much resonance, as a cannon, a large bell, the waves of the sea, etc.; also the usual word to express the cry of the bittern.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > deep resonant sound > [verb (intransitive)]
boomc1440
whoom1878
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [verb (intransitive)] > monotonous sound > hum
humc1420
boomc1440
sum?1440
bum1499
humble1617
spin1851
zoon1880
reel1899
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 55 Bombon as been [K., H., 1499 bummyn or bumbyn], bombizo.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. clxixv/2 This waspe bommeth about myne eare.
1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day i. 18 Booming o'er his Head The Billows close.
1815 Hogg Pilgrims of Sun ii, in Poems (1822) II. 48 Swift as the wild-bee's note, that on the wing Bombs like unbodied voice along the gale.
1842 R. H. Barham St. Medard in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 283 Unless I get home, Ere the Curfew bome.
1865 M. E. Braddon Only a Clod xxxvii. 303 All the machinery in London seemed buzzing and booming in her ears.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxi. 44 The bittern booms amid its pestilent and stagnant marshes.
b. transitive. Usually with out. To give forth or utter with a booming sound.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > utter loudly or angrily
yeiea1225
call?c1250
soundc1374
ringa1400
upcasta1400
barkc1440
resound?c1525
blustera1535
brawl1563
thunder1592
out-thunder?1611
peal1611
tonitruate1623
intonatea1631
mouth1700
rip1828
boom1837
explode1839
clamour1856
blare1859
foghorn1886
megaphone1901
gruff1925
loudmouth1931
woof1934
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > deep resonant sound > [verb (transitive)]
boom1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. vi. 399 Saint-Antoine booming out eloquent tocsin, of its own accord.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xvii. 303 The..clock boomed out twelve.
c. In Curling, etc.: To move rapidly onward with booming sound. Cf. bum v.2 Scottish.
ΚΠ
a1835 Hogg in Whistle-Binkie 3rd Ser. (Sc. Songs) 34 We'd boom across the Milky Way, One tee should be the Northern Wain, Another bright Orion's ray, A comet for a Channel Stane!
2. intransitive. ‘To rush with violence; as a ship is said to come booming, when she makes all the sail she can’ (Phillips 1706, whence in Johnson, etc.).
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress > move swiftly
crowd937
runOE
boom1617
to cut a feather1627
with a bone in her mouth (also teeth)1627
snore1830
spank1835
ramp1856
to step out1884
foot1892
1617 J. Taylor Dolphins Danger & Deliuerance sig. Bv The first of them booming by himselfe before the wind.
1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
1876 C. D. Warner Winter on Nile x. 130 We are booming along all night.
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 19 Dec. The three drives..with plenty of water come booming along at a most lively rate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
boomv.2
/buːm/, U.S. /bum/ 1. Nautical (transitive).
a. to boom out: to extend (the foot of a sail) with a boom.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > set sails in specific manner
to boom out1627
boom end1890
goose-wing1920
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 41 With a Boome boome it out.
1857 S. Osborn Quedah vi. 72 Our sails being at the time boomed out.
b. to boom off: to push (a vessel) off with a pole.
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > push off or away from ship
to boom off1840
stave1867
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xxxv. 249 We boomed her off from the wharf.
2.
a. To furnish (a river or piece of water) with a boom to retain floating timber; to collect (logs or timber) in a boom. North American. See boom n.2 4.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > transport logs
swamp1784
boom1798
snake1829
sluice1877
water1877
skid1878
tode1895
1798 Boston Town Rec. 45 [That] the Aqueduct Corporation be allowed the privilege of securing by booming their logs on such part of the beach at the foot of the Common..as the Selection..may be given.
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 1 Oct. Numerous lakes communicating with the main Slough have been boomed.
b. To protect (a regatta course) from encroachment by pleasure boats during a race, by placing floating booms (boom n.2 3b) between the piles. Also with off.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > race boats [verb (transitive)] > protect course from encroaching boats
boom1899
1899 Daily News 29 Apr. 7/3 It is proposed to ‘boom’ the whole length of the course along the Bucks side and for some distance on the Berks side.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 306/2 This proposal to boom off the [regatta] course was very severely criticized.
3. Cf. booming n. 2.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
boomv.3
/buːm/, U.S. /bum/ Originally U.S.
1. intransitive to ‘go off’ with a ‘boom’; to burst into sudden activity or briskness; to make rapid (commercial) progress, to advance vigorously.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things
prosper1434
flourish1571
thrive1613
boom1871
to catch on1885
1871 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 55 My popularity is booming, now.
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xxvii There's $200,000 coming, and that will set things booming again.
1875 Scribner's Monthly July 272 Stocks may ‘boom’ to-day, but droop to-morrow.
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 15 Oct. Every one says business is booming.
1882 Cent. Mag. 25 101 The gay, storm-beleaguered camp, in the words of its exhibitory press, began to boom.
1883 Leis. Ho. 283/2 This metropolis..has boomed into something highly commonplace and respectable.
2. transitive. To give a ‘boom’ to; to push, puff, force upon public attention, ‘write up’. Also absol. To work up a ‘boom’.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > commend or praise [verb (transitive)] > for ulterior purpose
puffa1500
bepuff1843
to whoop up1856
boom1879
plug1900
society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > types or methods of advertising > [verb (transitive)] > advertise ostentatiously or extravagantly
quack1646
puff1734
Barnumize1851
boom1879
ballyhoo1911
1879 Indianapolis Jrnl. 23 Apr. The rest are in varying degrees positive, if not ‘all “booming” for U. S. Grant’.
1882 Cent. Mag. 24 506 To ‘boom’ a town in Dakota is an art requiring..no end of push and cheek..Fargo is said to be the best-boomed town in Dakota.
1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Nov. 2/4 The World is booming Mr. Conkling for United States Senator.
1891 Confectioners' Union 15 Aug. 451/1 Messrs. J. S. Fry..are booming their manufactures in a novel way.
1894 Country Gentlemen's Catal. 15/1 If..cider [were] properly ‘boomed’, the consumption of it might be vastly increased.
1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 27 Oct. 10/1 He says the country was boomed out of all reason, and is now suffering from an inevitable reaction.
1915 W. Owen Let. 5 Mar. (1967) 325 My prime object is not..to boom a monster business.
1926 Spectator 30 Oct. 752/2 Dreyer's ‘diaplytes’, most deplorably boomed here, with official support.
1966 New Statesman 25 Mar. 414/2 One minor political figure in Alabama, a certain Shorty Price, decided to boom his own wife for governor.
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