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booing

nounverbattested in dialogue

A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.

noun

  1. 1

    A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.

    How is women's music to be defined for the purpose of holding a national women's music festival? In the past five years, the festival apparently experienced controversy due to contrasting definitions of women's music. There were walkouts and booings of performers who didn't fit within the limitations of some audience members' concepts of women's music.

    The riot sometimes spills over into the audience, and Kosky bears the proud scars of the booings he has endured.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of boopresent participle and gerund of boo

Forms

plural
booings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).