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booru

booru noun: a form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.

Noun

booru (plural boorus)

  1. (Internet) A form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.
    • If you could remember the name of the artist, there's a decent chance one of those booru projects have it.2021 February, Retromorpher, Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of February 05, 2021
    • We've created a Booru for fanart posts now for the community to use.2019 February, Proton Jon, “Twitter - Proton John”, in Twitter

Forms of booru

pluralboorus

Origin of booru

Reborrowed from Japanese ボール (bōru, “board”), itself from English board. Alternatively, an abbreviation of the term Danbooru (from Japanese 段ボール, danbōru, “corrugated cardboard”), the name of a particular imageboard website that uses an image of a brown cardboard box as its logo.

Questions about booru

What does booru mean?
Booru means a form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.
What part of speech is booru?
Booru is a noun.
What is the plural of booru?
The plural of booru is boorus.

Words near booru in the dictionary

  1. Boorstinian
  2. Boorstins
  3. boort
  4. boorts
  5. boortsog
  6. booru
  7. boorus
  8. boos
  9. Boosbeck
  10. boose
  11. boosed

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