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1. Make a resonant sound, like artillery
   "His deep voice boomed through the hall"
   - din
    
2. Hit hard
   "He boomed a 3-run homer"
   - smash, nail, blast
    
3. Be the case that thunder is being heard
   "Whenever it booms, my dog crawls under the bed"
   - thunder
    
4. Make a deep hollow sound
   "Her voice booms out the words of the song"
   - boom out
    
5. Grow vigorously
   "business is booming"
   - thrive, flourish, expand

1. A deep prolonged loud noise
   - roar, roaring, thunder
    
2. A state of economic prosperity
    
3. A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
   "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"
   - bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce [Brit]
    
4. A pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
   - microphone boom
    
5. Any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring

Derived forms: boomed, booming, booms

Type of: go, grow, happening, hit, natural event, noise, occurrence, occurrent, pole, prosperity, sound, spar

Part of: sailing ship, sailing vessel

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