Moomba
Britishnoun
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a festival held annually in Melbourne since 1954, named in the belief that moomba was an Aboriginal word meaning "Let's get together and have fun"
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a natural gas field in South Australia
Etymology
Origin of Moomba
from a native Australian language moom buttocks, anus
Example Sentences
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“Papua and Moomba Central both add value,” Macquarie says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Mr. Zampolli drank Diet Cokes with Mr. Trump, a teetotaler, in the exclusive upstairs area of the hot spot Moomba and joined him at other celebrity and model hangouts like Bowery Bar.
From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2016
Soon, they were falling in love at Moomba.
From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016
Given the patchy drilling results, developers are scouring Australia for supplies from inland conventional fields, such as those around Moomba in the central desert, to meet contracts to customers taking gas from these initial projects.
From Reuters • Jun. 3, 2012
This word, I am told by an oriental scholar, is a corruption of Moomba-devy, or the Goddess of Moomba, from an idol to which a temple is still dedicated on the island.
From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil
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