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- noun Plural form of
boomster .
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Examples
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"Sounds like the prelude of an address before a boomsters 'club."
The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919
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Of course, there are speculators and real-estate boomsters who gamble with our earnings, but their job is not as easy as it looks.
The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905
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A'm none of y'r immigration boomsters who goes in a Pullman car, then tells the world all about -- Now, which way to y'r Missionary
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The public who buy get rich value for their outlay; the chief pushers and boomsters get an advertisement after their own hearts; and the folk who genuinely but unwillingly contribute, without any return of any kind, are authors whose market is disturbed and booksellers who, partly intimidated and partly from good nature, handle the favoured book on wholesale terms barely profitable.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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But "-- with an inspiration --" why don't he go to one of these big-bug boomsters he knows -- that he got letters of introduction to -- and get him to fix him up? "
Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson 1894
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