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booing

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1. booing - Noun

2. booing - Verb

Meaning

booing (plural booings)

A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience.

booing

present participle and gerund of boo

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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing all you hear is the booing. Lance Armstrong

I'd hate the sound of thirty thousand people booing. Benny Andersson

The moment I appeared the crowd started jeering and booing and shouting ‘faggot' and spitting, I had hired a bodyguard and when the jeering started I turned to see where the bodyguard was, I could just see the back of his head as he was running out of the stadium. Sacha Baron Cohen

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. George Halas

Now, when we go into a park on the road people start booing me. You don't know how good that makes me feel. To me it means the fans recognize who I am and what I mean to my ball club. Fans don't boo nobodies. Reggie Jackson

Now I know how it can change, just like that. They can be applauding you one moment, and booing you the next. The thing to know is that you have done a good job, then it doesn't hurt to be criticized. Cary Grant

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