boomer vs ripple

boomer

noun
  • Something that makes a booming sound. 

  • A bittern (subfamily Botaurinae). 

  • A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work. 

  • A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa). 

  • A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). 

  • An elderly person, regardless of generation. 

  • A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology. 

  • A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN. 

  • An adult male kangaroo. 

  • A device used to bind or tighten chain. 

ripple

noun
  • A sound similar to that of undulating water. 

  • A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together. 

  • An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc. 

  • A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal. 

  • A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid. 

verb
  • To shape into a series of ripples. 

  • To launch or unleash in rapid succession. 

  • To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze 

  • To propagate like a moving wave. 

  • To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate. 

  • To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple. 

  • To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore. 

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