DCHP-1 Online
boomlet 
n. a short-lived period of prosperity or increased business activity; a minor boom.
- 1900 After all, the Edmonton district is as good as most, and not many suffered loss when the bottom fell out of the boomlet, while the Canadian Pacific Railway sold thousands of acres at prices as high as fifteen dollars an acre.
- 1940 She [Canada] benefitted from the 1937 boomlet in the United States and did not react so decidedly in 1938.
- 1900 After all, the Edmonton district is as good as most, and not many suffered loss when the bottom fell out of the boomlet, while the Canadian Pacific Railway sold thousands of acres at prices as high as fifteen dollars an acre.