ka-boom

American  

[kuh-boom] / kəˈbum /

interjection

1. (used to represent a sudden and loud sound, as of an explosion or a bass drum.)

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Etymology

Origin of ka-boom

ka-, boom ¹

Example Sentences

Ian Eagle, the ace Nets broadcaster working playoff games for TNT, had seen enough by Game 5 of the Clippers’ series against Utah to excitedly trumpet a corner 3-pointer from Jackson thusly: “Ka-boom! Reggie Jackson has been Mr. June.”

From New York Times

The spring plankton bloom went off just a few weeks ago, in a ka-boom of nutrition.

From Seattle Times

“All of a sudden you heard ka-boom, ka-boom, and one of the lines snapped,” recalls Snell, who ran outside to find a tree had done the damage a short distance down the road where he lives.

From Seattle Times

Even his tone and language has marked a departure for the usually reserved and technical Scholz, who pledged to use a “bazooka” to help struggling companies and get Europe’s largest economy out of the crisis “with a ka-boom”.

From Reuters

He added, though, that Scholz’s inability to connect with voters remained a weakness: “His talk about bazookas and ka-boom is actually a bit clumsy. You can’t change the way you think, talk and act, just like that.”

From Reuters