boom | 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 |
boom microphone boom | a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set |
ghetto blaster boom box | a portable stereo |
specious argument | an argument that appears good at first view but is really fallacious |
sonic boom | an explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound, a sonic boom follows an aircraft as a wake follows a ship |
boom roar roaring thunder | a deep prolonged loud noise |
boom bonanza gold rush gravy godsend manna from heaven windfall bunce | 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 |
baby boom baby-boom generation | the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II |
boom town | a town enjoying sudden prosperity |
kaffir boom Cape kafferboom Erythrina caffra | small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coraled seeds, yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles |
kaffir boom Transvaal kafferboom Erythrina lysistemon | small semi-evergreen tree of South Africa having dense clusters of clear scarlet flowers and red seeds |
prosperity successfulness | the condition of prospering, having good fortune |
boom | a state of economic prosperity |
prosperity | an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment |
boom thrive flourish expand | grow vigorously, The deer population in this town is thriving, business is booming |
smash nail boom blast | hit hard, He smashed a -run homer |
boom boom out | make a deep hollow sound, Her voice booms out the words of the song |
boom din | make a resonant sound, like artillery, His deep voice boomed through the hall |
thunder boom | be the case that thunder is being heard, Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed |
illusive illusory | based on or having the nature of an illusion, illusive hopes of finding a better job, Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy |
gilded meretricious specious | based on pretense, deceptively pleasing, the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility, meretricious praise, a meretricious argument |
specious spurious | plausible but false, a specious claim, spurious inferences |