ka-boom

Definitions

Examples

• I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.

• Turkey has had more than a decade of economic boom, and is now the sixth-most-visited tourist destination in the world.

• “I was watching ‘Daniel The Tiger’ with my kid and I heard two shots like ‘boom-boom,’” he said.

• But the dress was its own unapologetic sonic boom—and was immediately much-copied.

• Christie has a lot riding on fulfilling his promise of shepherding Atlantic City into a third boom era.

• There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.

• “Boom” refers, of course, to the large amount of support which Cleveland obtained on his second election to the Presidency.

• A church clock struck the hour of seven, its clangor intruding upon the silence only as a muffled boom.

• It is a generally accepted axiom that a public man cannot afford to be modest in these go-ahead days of "boom."

• And as I watched the canvas shake and heard it boom and flap I heartily welcomed it.