A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
Used in a Sentence
boos
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for boos.
Editorial note
But the boos vetoed it:( security issues (I know, I know but the data is fairly high value).
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Quick take
A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of boos gathered in one view.
A tail feather from an ostrich.
A community in Nacka, Stockholm, central Sweden.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for boos.
noun
A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
noun
A tail feather from an ostrich.
noun
A community in Nacka, Stockholm, central Sweden.
noun
(US, Canada, African-American Vernacular, slang) A close acquaintance or significant other.
Example sentences
But the boos vetoed it:( security issues (I know, I know but the data is fairly high value).
The press had no good words left about the boos fights and found out about who made it months later.
Are there any contemporary opera houses where you actually get boos if you perform badly?
Philadelphia is the town that boos Santa Claus and throws batteries at baseball players.
When the crowd boos you off the stage before you're finished, that's not censorship, it's other people also asserting their rights to free speech.
Server monitoring software that cheers when good things happen, boos when bad things happen, and gasps when major changes happen, that would be interesting.
The nice thing about git is that you can fix boo-boos.
While it might bring a few boos or hisses these days, there are a lot of lessons to be learned from reading the jQuery code base.
No grammar snafus, no syntactic boo-boos, no problems at all.
Ashley will get more than boos in subsequent trials).
I wouldn't even be surprised if part of this decline is due to the incredibly amount of garbage, Kardashian sisters and Honey Boo Boos on air.
And instead of my work living unseen in the dark recesses of a multi-tier architecture, I'm put, quite literally, center stage and in the spotlight, with immediate feedback (applause or boos) and recognition.
Quote examples
Socialize the judicial portion with flat rates for doctor/hospital boo-boos and a government panel to oversee and "punish".
However, I think a saying I heard today summed it up quite well: "A few boos can drown out a lot of cheers." With a sense of perspective as to what he has achieved, the people that complain must be a very small minority.
Proper noun examples
Boos were also heard (directed at, well, the director) at the premiere of Luc Bondy's new production of Tosca at New York's Metropolitan Opera just a few weeks ago.
At least it does mean I've got some extra encrypted-on-the-wire and encrypted-at-rest data floating around - I strongly suspect BTSync's SHA256 encrypted wire protocol moving AES encrypted EncFS files means that data is secure against the NSA's ubiquitous surveillance programs - the cleartext of those files won't be showing up in XKeyscore in response to bored or curious NSA (or Boos-Hamilton) staff.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use boos in a sentence?
But the boos vetoed it:( security issues (I know, I know but the data is fairly high value).
What does boos mean?
A derisive shout made to indicate disapproval.
What part of speech is boos?
boos is commonly used as noun.