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Boop vs Boof - What's the difference?

boop | boof |

As nouns the difference between boop and boof

is that boop is a low-pitched beeping sound while boof is the method by which kayakers “jump” hydraulic backwash, known as holes or hydraulic jumps, in high-gradient mountain rivers the action is analogous to a skier jumping a cliff.

boop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A low-pitched beeping sound.
  • * 1989 , Keith Peterson, The Trapdoor
    • When something important happened, a polite sort of boop went off, and up in the right-hand corner of your screen, above the copy, a word or two appeared: Urgent, Bulletin, Late Stocks, whatever.
  • * 2008 , Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies (page 281)
    • Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops. And to suggest that the rhythms laid down by a electronic drummer were anything close to swingin' was humorous.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 28, author=Jon Pareles, Nate Chinen, Kelefa Sanneh, Ben Ratliff, And Ben Allison, title=New CDs, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Guitars riffle precise chords and lilt through arpeggios, keyboards go boop , and every flick of a drumbeat is in place. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 20, author=Jon Pareles, title=Rasps, Boops, Snark and Sartre, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Santogold, from Brooklyn, may be mocking scene pretensions, defending the creative impulse or both in her single, “L.E.S. Artistes,” with its drumstick-clicking beat, electro boops and dance-rock chorus. }}

    boof

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The method by which kayakers “jump” hydraulic backwash, known as holes or hydraulic jumps, in high-gradient mountain rivers. The action is analogous to a skier jumping a cliff.

    • See also

    * hardcore