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noun

plural of boo
as in snorts
a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval the referee's questionable call was greeted with a chorus of boos

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verb

present tense third-person singular of boo
as in jeers

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Recent Examples of boos
Noun
Freedom responded and stepped toward the floor, prompting security to intervene and usher the 11-year NBA veteran out as the Chicago crowd rained down boos. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026 Julián Álvarez heard boos from the Atletico Madrid crowd in his return to action in the Spanish league after asking to leave the club, and both Juventus and AC Milan won in the Italian league. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 Over parts of five seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Thomas heard his fair share of boos when playing in Dodger Stadium. — Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026 The boos repeatedly rang out Friday night when Bregman stepped into the batter’s box during Seattle’s 10-inning victory. — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026 Those boos gave way to cheers when the Red Sox played a 90-second tribute video after the bottom of the first. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026 One resident urged the board not to reject the proposal outright but rather to create standards for data centers before taking a vote — an opinion that elicited boos from the crowd. — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026 Most mentions of Moskowitz and Wasserman Schultz drew boos, and mentions of Larkin, Manley and Nixon drew cheers. — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2026 The man tried to continue speaking, but his words were largely drowned out by the crowd before the audience erupted into a chorus of boos. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boos
  1. snorts
  2. hisses
  3. jeers
  4. catcalls
Noun
  • The Rodents of Unusual Size that attack Westley in a swamp work because they are played by small men in rodent suits, rather than coolly conjured from pixels; their deliberate artifice is the thrill, and Reiner provided the voice for their hideous snorts.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
Definition of snorts
Verb
  • Gaga hisses to her hair and makeup team after Priestly swans away.
    — Nigel Smith, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
  • Carrie’s voice hisses in my ear.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of hisses
Noun
  • Instagram rolled out a new logo last week — which instantly drew jeers from some users.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
  • And the jeers that White received from the home crowd at the end of pregame introductions might have spurred energy from the Fever players before and after the tilt.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of jeers
Noun
  • Especially women, with all those drunken servicemen rolling through, packs of them, fights spilling out of the cafés, catcalls and spitting in the streets.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • For Dua, puberty and social maturity become knotted up in unpredictable notions of bodily harm (whether acted upon, or merely threatened), as Serbian boys and men harass her on the way home from school, lacing their catcalls with ethnic slurs.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 May 2026
Definition of catcalls

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“Boos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boos. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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