[Vocabulary] baboom

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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.
 
Where is this from?
 
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.
 
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.
 
maiabulela said:
Kimora reality show. Does it make any difference? She is in Hawaii:shock:
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It might well make a difference.

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

Rover
 
JTRiff said:
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.
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True about baboom. But it makes no sense to me in this context.
 
maiabulela said:
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.
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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).

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BobK said:
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.



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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 :roll:
 
freezeframe said:
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.
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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? :oops::oops::oops:
 
maiabulela said:
Why I think she is stating that as a negative thing?!
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Fashion industry has its own hypocritical logic. Their idea of sexy is an anorexic stick staring forlornly into the distance. If someone has some flesh and looks more like a swimsuit model (for men's magazines), it's "too sexy" (meaning, it's a bad thing).
 
freezeframe said:
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.
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Do you mean that she wants to say that the model is sexy more than needed????????
 
maiabulela said:
Do you mean that she wants to say that the model is sexy more than needed????????
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I don't know what she wants to say. And the only context I have here is that this is said by someone called Kimora.

But, yes, that is how I read that sentence.
 
probus said:
"when someone tells a joke, a one-liner, on stage, the drummer often hits his tomtom"

But that is never baboom. It is always ba-dum BUMP.
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WHAT? :shock:
 
WHAT?
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In some live comedy shows, a drummer is usedto indicate the punchline of a joke- you'll sometimes see people writing rimshot after a joke to imitate this. It is often associated with weaker jokes that require some help to make the audience laugh IMO. Someone suggested that baboom might refer to this.

But that is never baboom.
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In the UK, we do use boom boom, because of the puppet fox Basil Brush.
 
Certainly badaboom, also badaboom-badabing, have been around forever. So badump, or baboom, or anything like it, could be used as an accent in live shows. The drummer hits the rimshot, or the highhat, or whatever, at the same time. Wonder if there's a word for doing that?
Otherwise, baboom is not a real word that I know, although it could appear as a comic book explosion sound.
Boom Boom... suggests 'out go the lights'. from the blues hit song, never heard of Mr. Brush.
 
Tdol said:
In some live comedy shows, a drummer is usedto indicate the punchline of a joke- you'll sometimes see people writing rimshot after a joke to imitate this. It is often associated with weaker jokes that require some help to make the audience laugh IMO. Someone suggested that baboom might refer to this.



In the UK, we do use boom boom, because of the puppet fox Basil Brush.
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Thanks for the Basil Brush link.:-D;-)
 
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