Adjective

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(childish) of something that goes zoom!

*{{quote-book

, title=Househusband , author=Ad Hudler , year=2004 , page=284 , passage=We play a game she calls zoomy rocket, which usually draws some nasty maternal stares.}}

*{{quote-journal

, journal=Kiplinger's Personal Finance? , year=Dec 1970 , volume=24 , number=12 , page=6 , passage=Zoomy little race cars

(mechanics) of something that looks like it would go zoom: sleek, speedy, streamlined

:zoomy but faded paint jobs

*{{quote-journal

, journal=Popular Mechanics , year=May 1992 , page=39 , passage=In our recent visits to the Frankfurt and Tokyo auto shows, we saw the zoomy shapes we expect at major shows.}}

*{{quote-journal

, journal=Car and Driver , year=2007 , page=59 , volume=52 , passage=Does the zoomy new look of the TT [automobile] equate with a corresponding improvement in performance?}}

(slang) Stylish, as a zoomy car, or as someone who looks like they would drive a zoomy car

*{{quote-book

, title=The circle home , author=Edward Hoagland , year=1960 , page=191 , passage=He caught a downtown bus and felt real good, real zoomy . }}

*{{quote-book

, title=Getting into fashion , author=Melissa Sones , year=1984 , page=237 , passage=Her "mod zoomy' little showcases," as she describes her boutiques, are as mod and ' zoomy as Johnson herself.}}

(photography) Obviously characteristic of a zoom lens

:relies upon zoomy close-ups

:wobbly, zoomy , headachey shots

*{{quote-journal

, journal=American anthropologist , year=1977 , volume=79 , page=760 , passage=However, the photography is at moments too poorly exposed, too zoomy , and the camera positioned too closely, for the footage to be useful}}

Adjective

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Characterized by heavy bass sounds.

* 1999 , Jon Chappell, The Recording Guitarist: A Guide for Home and Studio , page 54,

If you're miking a boomy acoustic, the proximity effect can work against you, but having it on a thin-sounding arch-top can work for you.

* 2007 , Gary Gottlieb, Shaping Sound in the Studio and Beyond: Audio Aesthetics and Technology , page 250,

As an airliner approaches you from a long way off, the sound is first heard as rumble, and, as it get closer and then directly overhead, the sound becomes increasingly boomier .

* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 26, author=Allan Kozinn, title=In Precise Movements, a Russian Sense of Drama, work=New York Times citation

, passage=For the third movement Mr. Safronov had Schubert’s piano sketch as a guide, but his big, boomy orchestration, with a gentle pastoral trio at its core, sounded jarring after the first two movements.}}

Of or pertaining to a financial boom, resources boom, baby boom, etc.

* Rudyard Kipling, quoted in 1992 , John William Reps, The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States , page 412,

Tacoma was literally staggering under a boom of the boomiest . I do not quite remember what her natural resources were supposed to be,.

* 1903 , Mining Magazine: An International Monthly Review of Current Progress in Mining and Metallurgy , Volume 7, page 132,

A larger amount of capital is seeking investment than in the boomiest of boom times, yet there is no boom now.

* 1979 , Business Week , Issues 2592-2600, page 72,

Even in boomier times, the flexibility that leasing provides has become increasingly important to companies.