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boomtown

boomtown is the alternative form of boom town.

Meaning of boom town

Noun

boom town (plural boom towns)

  1. A town that is experiencing or has experienced a period of rapid growth due to some temporary activity.
    • Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town? / We danced and sang, and the music played in a de boomtown1981, Jerry Dammers, “Ghost Town”, performed by The Specials

Forms of boomtown

pluralboomtowns

Origin of boomtown

From boom + town.

Questions about boomtown

What is boomtown the alternative form of?
Boomtown is the alternative form of boom town.

Words near boomtown in the dictionary

  1. boomsters
  2. boomstick
  3. boomsticks
  4. boomtime
  5. boomtimes
  6. boomtown
  7. boomtowns
  8. boomvang
  9. boomvangs
  10. boomy
  11. boon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boomtown (page history and authors); boom town (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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