Words · Common
boom
/bum/ · 4 letters · 3 distinct letters
- verb
make a resonant sound, like artillery
His deep voice boomed through the hall
- noun
a deep prolonged loud noise
- verb
hit hard
He smashed a 3-run homer
- 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