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boom-booming

boom-booming is the present participle and gerund of boom-boom.

Meaning of boom-boom

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.
    • Overhead the woodpecker knocked insistently, and in the forest depths the partridge boom-boomed and strutted in virile glory.1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    bang, boom
  2. To strike or beat.
    • Archer lowers the boom on Tolaris about assaulting T’Pol and Tolaris boom booms him into the wall.2015 September 19, putaro, “Fusion”, in Putaro's Enterprise Rewatch Reviews & Snarkfest, Triaxiansilk.com, retrieved 01 Sep 2016
    Synonyms:
    bang
  3. To have sexual intercourse.
    • 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...2014, Megan Amram, “The apocalypse”, in Science... For Her!, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 110
    Synonyms:
    bang

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Questions about boom-booming

What is boom-booming the present participle and gerund of?
Boom-booming is the present participle and gerund of boom-boom.

Words near boom-booming in the dictionary

  1. boom vang
  2. boom vangs
  3. boom-and-bust
  4. boom-boom
  5. boom-boomed
  6. boom-booming
  7. boom-booms
  8. boom-bust
  9. boom-busts
  10. boom-house
  11. boom-houses

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