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单词 to top one's boom
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to top one's boom
colloquial (originally Navy slang). to top one's boom: to leave, depart; to make oneself scarce. Cf. sense 2a. Now rare.
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1815 News 17 Sept. 304/1 Upon this he said to himself, ‘It was time to top his boom,’ so he slipped his cable, meaning to run.
1836 F. Chamier Ben Brace II. vii. 179 The magistrate had topped his boom directly the scuffle began.
1880 ‘Nauticus’ Nauticus on his Hobby Horse 31 I did not care to wait all that time, so ‘topping my boom’ we went on to Tonbridge Wells by a hilly road.
1958 J. Masefield Let. in Lett. to Reyna (1983) 215 He kind of topped his boom from her to live among the cannibals.
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