baboom

[maiabulela]

Dear all,

What's the meaing of the word "baboom" in:

"This model is cute but she has a lot of baboom, and her little eyes seem lost in the headlight"

Thanks a lot.

[freezeframe]

Where is this from?

[maiabulela]

Where is this from?

Kimora reality show. Does it make any differnece? She is in Hawaii

[freezeframe]

It's probably vavoom. It means "sexy" or "sex appleal" or it could be used generally to mean "exciting". This is a contraction of "va-va-voom" which means the same thing. Both are informal words.

I'm guessing the speaker is saying that the model is too sexy in that "porn" way if it's about a fashion model.

[JTRiff]

not a teacher of burlesque

Va-va-voom! Probably a wolf-whistle from the forties or earlier.) Hotcha!
Baboom could refer to the sound of a drum shot - as when someone tells a joke, a one-liner, on stage, the drummer often hits his tomtom or high hat to add an accent - Baboom!
See: Burlesque.

[Rover_KE]

Kimora reality show. Does it make any difference? She is in Hawaii

It might well make a difference.

Never underestimate the importance of context, and please don't disparage a member's request for it.

Rover

[freezeframe]

not a teacher of burlesque

Va-va-voom! Probably a wolf-whistle from the forties or earlier.) Hotcha!
Baboom could refer to the sound of a drum shot - as when someone tells a joke, a one-liner, on stage, the drummer often hits his tomtom or high hat to add an accent - Baboom!
See: Burlesque.

True about baboom. But it makes no sense to me in this context.

[BobK]

Dear all,

What's the meaing of the word "baboom" in:

"This model is cute but she has a lot of baboom, and her little eyes seem lost in the headlight"

Thanks a lot.

Maybe the porn star is a red herring...? Both 'model' and 'headlight' are suitable words in the context of a car, as are 'cute' and 'she' in a certain kind of laddish 'journalism'. And 'va-va-voom' is used in a current car advert.

(I doubt if 'baboom' is a reference to the tom-tom's sound after a corny joke. I've always seen it spelt 'bou[m]-boum' - the first '[m]' has only one precedent (only one, but very common): the 'speaker' was a puppet called Basil Brush - who intereted parties can probably find on YouTube (which isn't behaving for me at the moment).

b

[freezeframe]

Maybe the porn star is a red herring...? Both 'model' and 'headlight' are suitable words in the context of a car, as are 'cute' and 'she' in a certain kind of laddish 'journalism'. And 'va-va-voom' is used in a current car advert.



b

Or a red herring is the porn star?

It would sound really really odd if this was a car -- "her little eyes are lost in the headlights"?
It sounds, to me, more like a clueless model that is "too sexy".*

*qualifications: years of watching America's Next Top Model

[maiabulela]

It's probably vavoom. It means "sexy" or "sex appleal" or it could be used generally to mean "exciting". This is a contraction of "va-va-voom" which means the same thing. Both are informal words.

I'm guessing the speaker is saying that the model is too sexy in that "porn" way if it's about a fashion model.

Why I think she is stating that as a negative thing?! "She is cute [BUT] sha has a lot of baboom! At first, I thought that it meant "boobs" but then the model's boobs are very small!
I appreciate all your answers but I really can't get until now what she means?