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booable

booable adjective: suitable for being booed.

Adjective

booable (comparative more booable, superlative most booable)

  1. (colloquial) Suitable for being booed.
    • Thanks, then, to white South Africans, who, before dumping Apartheid, were universally despised and proved instantly booable at the movies.1996, Marshall Julius, Action!: The Action Movie A-Z, page 2
    • Not for nothing do screenwriters and dramatists, in search of a booable villain, regularly opt for a tabloid reporter. It saves time. They don't have to spend pages establishing a lack of morals […]2000, David Randall, The Universal Journalist, page 1

Forms of booable

comparativemore booable
superlativemost booable

Origin of booable

From boo + -able.

Questions about booable

What does booable mean?
Booable means suitable for being booed.
What part of speech is booable?
Booable is an adjective.

Words near booable in the dictionary

  1. boo-hooing
  2. boo-hooray
  3. boo-hoos
  4. boo-womp
  5. boo-ya
  6. booable
  7. boob
  8. boob augmentation
  9. boob augmentations
  10. boob cancer
  11. boob envy

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