boom-boom

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. See boom.

Pronunciation

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Verb

boom-boom (third-person singular simple present boom-booms, present participle boom-booming, simple past and past participle boom-boomed)

1. To make a loud, low-pitched sound.
   • 1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     Overhead the woodpecker knocked insistently, and in the forest depths the partridge boom-boomed and strutted in virile glory.

2. To strike or beat.
   • 2015 September 19, putaro, “Fusion”, in Putaro's Enterprise Rewatch Reviews & Snarkfest‎^[1], Triaxiansilk.com, retrieved 9-01-2016:

     Archer lowers the boom on Tolaris about assaulting T’Pol and Tolaris boom booms him into the wall.

3. To have sexual intercourse.
   • 2014, Megan Amram, “The apocalypse”, in Science... For Her!, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 110:

     We're smart, sexy, and have even more sexable holes in our bodies than before the apocalypse. I would let a man boom-boom the hole in my calf...

Synonyms

• (make loud sound): bang, boom
• (strike, beat): bang, knock, whack; see also Thesaurus:hit
• (have sexual intercourse): bang, beep, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Noun

boom-boom (countable and uncountable, plural boom-booms)

1. Loud, resonant sound; a repeated loud sound.
   • 1980, Donald A Smith, At the Forks of the Grand, Paris, Ontario: Paris Public Library Board, →ISBN, page 27:

     ...it detested the thunderous boom-boom of the big drum, and the whoopings and hollerings that frightened the horses...

2. (figurative, slang) A strike; an act of beating.
   • 1993, Evan Burr Bukey, “Gordon J. Horvitz, In the Shadow of Death: Living outside the Gates of Mauthausen”, in Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka, editors, Austria in the New Europe, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 175:

     ...others spontaneously beat or shot helpless inmates [...] an SS-Blochführer was assisted by his girlfriend, who chortled, "Bubi, you have already made boom-boom so often, now let girly make boom-boom for once."

3. (euphemistic, childish, chiefly uncountable) Excrement.
   • 2012, Joe Micik, 0.00: Tales of the Sober Kid at College, Joe Micik, →ISBN, page 199:

     Whatever the case, he was quite close to making boom-boom in his pants.

   • 2015 September 9, Mark NC, quoting Ralph Wiggum of The Simpsons, “Remedial Republicans: Or How Ralph Wiggum Foretold The Coming Of Donald Trump”, in News Corpse‎^[2], retrieved 9-02-2016:

     When we’re mad, we’ll just use our words, then the rest of the world will play nice with us. And the only boom-booms will be in our pants.

4. (euphemistic, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
   • 2008, Ralph French, Beyond the Call of Duty, Beyond the Call of Duty, →ISBN, page 31:

     Thuy pressed her body against him. "You want boom-boom?" she said.

Synonyms

• (loud, resonant sound): clap, report; see also Thesaurus:bang
• (strike): clobbering, smackdown; see also Thesaurus:beating
• (excrement): doody, poo; see also Thesaurus:feces
• (sexual intercourse): coitus, roll in the hay; see also Thesaurus:copulation

Adjective

boom-boom (not comparable)

1. Resonant; producing a booming sound.
   • 2015, Kate Meader, Flirting with Fire, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 60:

     The boom-boom bass out in the truck bay wasn't quite loud enough to drown out the whoops and the hollers of the ladies.

Synonyms

• canorous, resounding; see also Thesaurus:sonorous

Interjection

boom-boom

1. (British) Used to draw attention to a pun or weak joke.
   • 2003 November 28, “Surprise Party” (00:28 from the start), in The Basil Brush Show‎^[3], season 2, British Broadcasting Corporation:

     "If he thinks that, he should live in a loony bin." "He already does." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha boom-boom!"

Synonyms

• ba-dum ching