DCHP-1 Online
boom ((3)) ((v.)) 3 † 
1 v. go ahead rapidly in business activity and prosperity.
- 1882 The immediate building of the road would cause this place to boom right along for a while.
- 1953 The country . . . sure is booming!
2 v. call attention to, with a view to inducing investment in or support of, as a town, a company, property; promote.
- 1883 Their town is all the better for not having been "boomed" to any considerable extent.
- 1958 We had "Windy Young"of The Slocan Bellows trying frantically to boom Slocan city. . . .
- 1882 The immediate building of the road would cause this place to boom right along for a while.