kaboom
/kəˈbuːm/
kaboom noun: the sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.
Noun
kaboom (plural kabooms)
- The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.
- An explosion itself.
Interjection
- An explosion; the word is typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.
Verb
kaboom (third-person singular simple present kabooms, present participle kabooming, simple past and past participle kaboomed)
- To make such a sound (at something); to explode.
- Hearing that magic word, Spivak exploded, “I don’t have to listen to this shit!” and kaboomed the receiver in my ear.2006, Jeff Bukantz, “Better Than Medals”, in Closing the Distance: Chasing a Father’s Olympic Fencing Legacy, Boston, Mass.: Acanthus Publishing, →ISBN, page 99
- The Steel Pier’s Diving Horse kaboomed the water tank.2007, W[illiam] S[imone] Di Piero, “Frankie’s Birthday Party”, in Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 121
kaboom meaning in Indonesian, Persian and Thai
kaboom in Indonesian
- sound of explosion
- jeder, duar
kaboom in Persian
- sound of an explosion
- بووم bûm
kaboom in Thai
- sound of an explosion
- ตูม dtoom
Examples of kaboom in a sentence
- With the tunnel now open to the outside air, the roar of the Nor’easter outside kaboomed.2013, Michael Alexiades, “McManus”, in Night Harvest: A Novel, Nashville, Tenn.; New York, N.Y.: Turner Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 343:
- On my way out I kaboomed the school for luck.2016, Dawn McNiff, chapter 26, in How Not to Be Weird, London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, page 168:
Forms of kaboom
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | kabooms |
| alternative form | kerboom |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | kabooms |
| present participle | kabooming |
| past participle | kaboomed |
| past | kaboomed |
Origin of kaboom
From ka- + boom. Compare kerboom. Consider Italian tapum.
Words that rhyme with kaboom
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- gloom
- home
- presume
- whom
- womb
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- legume
- loom
- rheum
- backroom
- boardroom
- combe
- coomb
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- anteroom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- foredoom
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
- toom
Questions about kaboom
- What does kaboom mean?
- Kaboom means the sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.
- What is kaboom in Indonesian?
- Kaboom in Indonesian is jeder, duar. See Kaboom meaning in Indonesian.
- How do you use kaboom in a sentence?
- With the tunnel now open to the outside air, the roar of the Nor’easter outside kaboomed.
- What part of speech is kaboom?
- Kaboom can be a noun, an interjection or a verb.
- How do you pronounce kaboom?
- Kaboom is pronounced /kəˈbuːm/.
- What is the plural of kaboom?
- The plural of kaboom is kabooms.
Words near kaboom in the dictionary
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