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Is boom a Scrabble word?

Yes, boom is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of boom?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.Examples: "I was about to reach for the marmalade, when I heard the telephone tootling out in the hall and rose to attend to it. “Bertram Wooster's residence,” I said, having connected with the instrument. “Wooster in person at this end. Oh hullo,” I added, for the voice that boomed over the wire was that of Mrs Thomas Portarlington Travers of Brinkley Court, Market Snodsbury, near Droitwich – or, putting it another way, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia. [...] “I'd give a tenner to have Aubrey Upjohn here at this moment.” “You can get him for nothing. He's in Uncle Tom's study.” Her face lit up. “He is?” [Aunt Dahlia] threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure, old ancestor.”"figurativelytransitive

2. (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.Examples: "The population boomed in recent years."; "Business was booming."; "“If you look at South Florida right now, this place is booming,” Mr. DeSantis said recently. “Los Angeles isn’t booming. New York City isn’t booming.”"Synonyms: flourish, prosperintransitive

3. (transitive) To make (something) boom.Examples: "Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death."transitive

4. (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.Examples: "Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground, and by deep and sullen pools fringed with tall rushes, in which the bitterns boomed and the frogs croaked incessantly[.]"

5. (aviation):intransitive

6. (aviation):slangtransitive

noun (English)

1. (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.Antonyms: recession

2. (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

3. (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.Examples: "Some chess commentators know to excitedly point out when booms happen but they almost universally are missing out on the next step of explaining what the boom meant."; "The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me!"Antonyms: moobslang

noun (English)

1. (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.Examples: "Tighten the outhaul and place the appropriate line in the cam cleat located on the boom about two feet back from the mast."

2. (videography)

3. (videography)abbreviationalt-ofbroadlyellipsis

4. (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.

5. (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.Examples: "The wooden upright was now standing in the middle of the floor, and the two booms were fitted into its grooved side and hoisted as high as hands could reach. [...] Two by two, one at each end, the students proceeded along the boom, hanging by their hands, monkey-wise. [...] Two by two the students somersaulted upwards on to the high boom, turned to a sitting position sideways, and then slowly stood up on the narrow ledge."

verb (English)

1. (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.usually

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "boom"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "boom"?

Scrabble
8 points
B3
O1
O1
M3
Words With Friends
10 points
B4
O1
O1
M4

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