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postboom

postboom adjective: after a boom.

Adjective

postboom (not comparable)

  1. After a boom.
    • Austin, even postboom Austin, has always been small enough to accommodate my haunts — the grocery, the laundromat, the burger joint, and the bookstore — within walking distance.1988 September, Texas Monthly, volume 16, number 9, page 94

Origin of postboom

From post- + boom.

Questions about postboom

What does postboom mean?
Postboom means after a boom.
What part of speech is postboom?
Postboom is an adjective.

Words near postboom in the dictionary

  1. postblackness
  2. postblastodermal
  3. postbleach
  4. postbleaching
  5. postblock
  6. postboom
  7. postboomer
  8. postboomers
  9. postboost
  10. postbop
  11. postbottleneck

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