BOOS Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

boos 1 of 2

noun

plural of boo

as in snorts

a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval the referee's questionable call was greeted with a chorus of boos

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boos

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verb

present tense third-person singular of boo

as in jeers

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Noun

Even after leaving the stadium, they were met with incessant boos and middle fingers from Thorns fans. — Matt Calkins Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026 The Panthers trailed, 33-6, at halftime in front of an aggrieved home crowd that rained boos on them at several junctures. — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 26 Oct. 2026 While Haliburton received a rousing ovation during player introductions, Indiana's play soon turned those cheers into boos. — ABC News, 23 Oct. 2026 Fans who braved the stormy weather caused by Hurricane Isaias rained down boos as Atlanta United picked up another loss, this time to FC Cincinnati 3-1 on Saturday night. — Amna Subhan, AJC.com, 11 Oct. 2026 The 28-year-old heard some boos from the home crowd after the play. — James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026 Crowds are dwindling at Daikin Park, where boos became the background noise and biggest story of this two-game embarrassment against the White Sox. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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The Rodents of Unusual Size that attack Westley in a swamp work because they are played by small men in rodent suits, rather than coolly conjured from pixels; their deliberate artifice is the thrill, and Reiner provided the voice for their hideous snorts.

— Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025

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In the Premier League, leader Manchester City ignored jeers from Liverpool fans to seal a 3-0 statement win in its first game since the club was found guilty of a raft of financial breaches.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
Cheers, jeers, and energetic call-and-response exchanges echoed through the hall as the audience, dressed in bright green, pink, and red, some wearing candidate T-shirts, listened.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of jeers

Noun

Especially women, with all those drunken servicemen rolling through, packs of them, fights spilling out of the cafés, catcalls and spitting in the streets.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
For Dua, puberty and social maturity become knotted up in unpredictable notions of bodily harm (whether acted upon, or merely threatened), as Serbian boys and men harass her on the way home from school, lacing their catcalls with ethnic slurs.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 May 2026

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