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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Boom \Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Boomed}, p. pr & vb n. {Booming}.] [Of imitative origin; cf OE bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf {Bum}, {Bump}, v. i., {Bomb}, v. i.] 1. 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. --Tennyson. 2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. Alarm guns booming through the night air. --W. Irving. 3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. She comes booming down before it --Totten. 4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
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