ka-boom
Americaninterjection
Etymology
Origin of ka-boom
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
An exhilarating fusion of high and low, the movie takes a shopworn premise — townsfolk facing a violent threat — and bats it around until it all goes ka-boom.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2020
It comes out of the sky and lands with a flaming ka-boom on John Cena.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2018
That’s the real ka-boom, or the new ka-boom now that Stacey King douses every three-pointer with hot sauce.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 28, 2011
No one says anything for a minute, but I notice that Hannah gives me a worried look and then sighs, like she’s waiting for a big ka-boom.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
And I brace myself for the ka-boom, sure to follow.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
