boom

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The people to blame for the boom were apparently those of us in the private sector as our capitalism ran riot.

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  1. intransitive verb To make a deep, resonant sound.
  2. intransitive verb To grow, develop, or progress rapidly; flourish: Business is booming.
  3. transitive verb To utter or give forth with a deep, resonant sound: a field commander booming out orders.
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  • At daylight on the morning of the 12th, not a spar of the boom was anywhere visible, and, with the exception of the Foudroyant and Cassard , the whole of the enemy's vessels were helplessly aground. —  The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc.
  • The marijuana boom was a phenomenon that won't happen again because the police won't let it happen again. —  The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum
  • I admit to a minor amount of Schadenfreude at the way Ireland went from "Tiger" to "Basket Case", and it really does strike me that those countries that so aggressively pursued a boom were the ones that most quickly went bust. —  rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
  • Ironically, the boom is a result of the troubled times. —  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
  • All this boom was actively heated up by television: advertisement was offering with all its might to spend, to buy, once again to spend, once again to buy ... —  Robert Amsterdam
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roar ·  crash ·  thunder ·  rumble ·  thud ·  clang ·  explosion ·  loud ·  hiss ·  muffle ·  bang ·  crack

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boom:   booming ·  booms ·  boomed
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English bomben, imitative of a loud noise.
  2. Dutch, tree, pole, from Middle Dutch; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. An imitative word, a revival of Middle English bummen, modern English bum, in its orig. sound (Middle English u usually represented the sound now indicated by oo long or short): see bum, bomb, bomb, bump, bumble, etc., and cf. boom.
  2. from boom, v.
  3. A nautical word of Dutch origin, from Dutch boom = Low German boom, a tree, beam, bar, pole, = Swedish Danish bom, a bar, rail, perch, boom, = Norwegian bomm, bumm, bumb (according to Aasen from Low German or D.), a bar, boom, = German baum, a tree, beam, bar, boom, = E. beam, q. v.
  4. = Dutch boomen, push with a pole, from boom, a pole, boom: see boom, n. Cf. beam, v.
  5. A recent American use, originating in the West, and first made familiar in 1878; a particular application of boom, v. i., (d) (With ref. also to boom, n., (d), from the thought of sudden and rapid motion with a roaring and increasing sound. In later use some assume also an allusion to boom, n., 3. When a boom of logs breaks, the logs rush with violence down the stream, and are then said to be “booming”; but this appears to be the ordinary present participle adjective booming, roaring, rushing with violence, and to have no connection with boom, n. or v.
 

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