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/buː/ · interjection
A loud exclamation intended to scare someone. Usually used when one has been hidden from the target, and then appears unexpectedly..
I ask them to record their votes in my favour, and I ask, is there any man who will dare to call me a stranger (hear, hear, and booing)?
...Hodgson headed down the tunnel with the boos of fans ringing in his ears after an eighth league defeat of the season...
Like a moustachioed pantomime villain relishing boos and hisses from the audience, Trump is oblivious to warnings and protestations from the sane world and simply contemptuous of the lickspittle mob desperately hoping to go unnoticed.
When he took the podium, the crowd booed.
Nobody booed and nobody clapped
Substitute Charlie Austin scored seven minutes into his Southampton debut as a lacklustre Manchester United were booed off at Old Trafford.
The protesters loudly booed the visiting senator.
A tall, hooded young woman, clutching a newspaper article, delivered a note to the judge. “My name is Sunkist,” she wrote, “Lionel R. Harris is my boyfriend. Lewis shot my Boo and it was not self-defense . . . . Judge and jurors please listen to me I am 17 years of {age} and a good young lady and my Boo got killed for nothing.”
Use boo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Boo means A loud exclamation intended to scare someone. Usually used when one has been hidden from the target, and then appears unexpectedly..
Common synonyms include hoot, badger, barrack, gird.
Possible antonyms include cheer, acclaim, acclamate, applaud.
I ask them to record their votes in my favour, and I ask, is there any man who will dare to call me a stranger (hear, hear, and booing)?
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