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  • The fox-captain went to this drum and knocked his knees against it -- first one knee and then the other -- so that the drum said: "Boom-boom."

    Love Letters 2010

  • Boom-boom boomer girls; Living dreams denied in their youth and facing the downhill side of their lives, women emerge.

    The Boomer Blog: FH BOOM DAILY DIGEST Archives 2006

  • You know that awful cringing feeling when someone is standing before a crowd telling horrendously unfunny "Boom-boom!" jokes, and the audience titters politely?

    what good is sitting alone in your room? 2006

  • You know that awful cringing feeling when someone is standing before a crowd telling horrendously unfunny "Boom-boom!" jokes, and the audience titters politely?

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • "Boom-boom" was how he verbalized it, pounding his right fist into his left palm.

    The View from the Heartland Lelyveld, Joseph 2004

  • Boom-boom ... a second heavy beat-beat ... then a clangor with a swelling echo.

    The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958

  • "Boom-boom, " said Dummy softly, pulling Miss Pepper beside him, their heads sticking out of the skylight trapdoor.

    The Rubadub Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

  • "Boom-boom, " said Dummy, who seemed quite unable to say anything else, pointing and grinning.

    The Rubadub Mystery Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

  • No sooner had they landed than the Boom-boom, Boom-boom of the call to arms came floating across the water to us, to be taken up in fifty settlements all round the country.

    Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

  • But this came from Boom-boom Point, fifty yards away (an out jutting of rocks where we had secured our first giant catfish of that name).

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

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