boom

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I think anyone that survived the dotcom boom and crash has stories like this.

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Quick take

a deep prolonged loud noise

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of boom gathered in one view.

noun

a deep prolonged loud noise

noun

a state of economic prosperity

noun

a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for boom.

noun

a deep prolonged loud noise

noun

a state of economic prosperity

noun

See also: bonanza, gravy, godsend, windfall, bunce

noun

a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set

noun

any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring

verb

make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall"

verb

hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"

verb

be the case that thunder is being heard; "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed"

verb

make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song"

verb

grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"

Example sentences

I think anyone that survived the dotcom boom and crash has stories like this.

Better bargains were the draw and Walmart boomed, outgrew their original store and struck an agreement with the mall for cheap property and rent if they could become the new anchor at the mall.

The service, provided by municipally owned EPB, has sparked a tech boom in the city and attracted international attention.

On the macro level, law has been a boom business ever since at least the 1960s when expansive liability theories came to be widely adopted by the legislatures and the courts.

So how annoying it is when you're bootstrapping a company, you have your price-points carefully set, you're doing a cracker job at concentrating on 'how to sustain the company without investors capital' and then boom.

Actually I worked as a synthetic organic chemist in a previous life and I was always much more afraid of the chronic systemic poisons than the things that blew up. It's one thing to have something go boom in your fume hood and quite another to get a drop of something on your glove that you don't even notice and then later that week all your hair starts falling out and everything tastes like metal.