Boom

Boom may refer to:

Pole or spar application

• Boom (sailing), spar at the foot of a sail on a sailboat
• Boom (windsurfing), a wishbone shaped piece of windsurfing equipment
• Boom barrier, a barrier used to block vehicular access through a controlled point
• Boom (floating) a floating barrier to prevent access, or to control debris & pollution
• Boom operator (media), an assistant to the production sound mixer
• Log boom, a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forests
• Boom, mechanical arm on a microphone stand
• Boom, spar used on a crane

Television and films

• BOOMTV, a proposed Canadian premium television service
• Boom! (1968 film), directed by Joseph Losey and based on The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Tennessee Williams
• Boom (2003 film), a Bollywood film directed by Kaizad Gustad
• Boom (Power Rangers), a character from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
• "Boom" (CSI), a first-season episode of C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation
• Boom! (TV series), an American reality television series

Music

• "Boom!" (song), by System of a Down
• "Boom" (song), by Anastasia
• "Boom" (Mario song)
• "Boom" (P.O.D. song)
• "Boom" (Flight of the Conchords song)
• "Boom" (Royce da 5'9" song)
• Boom Festival, an electronic music festival

Sports and games

• Boom (source port), a source port of the computer game Doom
• "Boom!", a word often used by National Football League commentator John Madden

Geography

• Boom, Antwerp, a municipality in Belgium
• Boom Gorge, a gorge on the Chu River in Kyrgyzstan
• Boom, Texas, former name of Summerfield, Texas

Other uses

• Boom operator (military), a controller of in-flight refueling
• Economic boom, time of rapid growth in wealth, as in a boom town
• Latin American Boom, a major current in Latin American literature in the second half of the 20th century
• Sonic boom
• Boom, nickname for Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard

See also

• Bang (disambiguation)
• Boom Boom (disambiguation)
• "Boom Boom Boom"
• "Boom Boom Boom Boom"