Alarm guns booming through the night air.
W. Irving.
3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
She comes booming down before it.
Totten.
4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
Boom, n. 1. A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon; also, the hollow cry of the bittern; a booming.
2. A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee. [Colloq. U. S.]
Boom, v. t. To cause to advance rapidly in price; as, to boom railroad or mining shares; to create a "boom" for; as to boom Mr. C. for senator. [Colloq. U. S.]
||Boom"das (&?;), n. [D. boom tree + das badger.] (Zoöl.) A small African hyracoid mammal (Dendrohyrax arboreus) resembling the daman.
Boom"er (&?;), n. 1. One who, or that which, booms.
2. (Zoöl.) A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See Sewellel.