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booable en · ADJ

Etymology

From boo + -able.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Suitable for being booed.
   • Thanks, then, to white South Africans, who, before dumping Apartheid, were universally despised and proved instantly booable at the movies. 1996, Marshall Julius, Action!: The Action Movie A-Z, page 2:
   • Not for nothing do screenwriters and dramatists, in search of a booable villain, regularly opt for a tabloid reporter. It saves time. They don't have to spend pages establishing a lack of morals […] 2000, David Randall, The Universal Journalist, page 1:

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