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up the booai

up the booai is the alternative form of up the boohai.

Meaning of up the boohai

Prepositional phrase

  1. (New Zealand, idiomatic, informal) Utterly and completely lost; lost in a remote location.

Questions about up the booai

What is up the booai the alternative form of?
Up the booai is the alternative form of up the boohai.

Words near up the booai in the dictionary

  1. up tack
  2. up the aisle
  3. up the ante
  4. up the arse
  5. up the ass
  6. up the booai
  7. up the boohai
  8. up the country people
  9. up the creek
  10. up the creek without a paddle
  11. up the duff

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up the booai (page history and authors); up the boohai (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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