Boo is an onomatopoeic word for a loud, startling sound, as an exclamation intended to scare, or as a call of derision (see

booing Booing is an act of publicly showing displeasure for someone or something, such as an entertainer or an athlete, by loudly yelling "Boo!" and sustaining the "oo" sound by holding it out. People may also make hand signs such as the thumbs down sig ...

). Boo or BOO may also refer to:

Places

* Boo (Aller), parish in Asturias, Spain * Boo, standard abbreviation for the constellation Boötes * Boo, Ghana, a town in

Lawra District Lawra Municipal District is one of the eleven districts in Upper West Region, Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the s ...

in the Upper West RegionDeja * Boo, Guinea, in Nzérékoré Prefecture; see

List of schools in Ghana This is a list of notable schools in the African country of Ghana. A * Aburi Girls’ Senior High School, Aburi, Eastern Region * Accra Academy, in Kaneshie, Greater Accra Region * Aburi Secondary Technical School, in Aburi, Eastern Reg ...

Boo, Sweden Boo, sometimes referred to as ''Saltsjö-Boo'', is a locality situated on the island of Värmdö in Sweden's Stockholm archipelago. From an administrative perspective, it is located in Nacka Municipality and Stockholm County, and has 24,052 inh ...

, locality in Stockholm County *

Bodø Airport Bodø Airport ( no, Bodø lufthavn; ) is a civil airport in the town of Bodø in Bodø Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Located just south of the city centre, on the westernmost tip of the Bodø peninsula, it shares facilities with the mi ...

in Norway, IATA airport code BOO *

Boo Islands . Boo Islands () are a small group of islands in the westernmost part of Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. The main island is Boo Besar, others include Boo Kecil Boo is an onomatopoeic word for a loud, startling sound, as an exclamation intended ...

, West Papua, Indonesia

Station

*Code for

Bogor railway station Bogor Station (BOO) is a railway station located in the city of Bogor, West Java. This station serves as the terminus for Red Line and Yellow Line services of KRL Commuterline. The station has five island platforms and two side platforms. The ...

People

* Boo (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname *

Betty Boo Alison Moira Clarkson (born 6 March 1970 in Kensington, London), better known as Betty Boo, is an English singer, songwriter and rapper. She first came to mainstream prominence in the late 1980s following a collaboration with the Beatmasters ...

(born 1970), English singer, songwriter and pop rapper Alison Moira Clarkson *

Gangsta Boo Lola Chantrelle Mitchell (born August 7, 1979), better known by her stage name Gangsta Boo, is an American rapper, who was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the second female member (after K-9) of the Memphis-based hip hop group Thr ...

(born 1979), American rapper * Sabrian "Boo" Sledge, half of the American hip hop duo

Boo & Gotti Boo & Gotti were an American hip-hop duo composed of Sabrian "Boo" Sledge and Mwata "Gotti" Mitchell. They are perhaps best known for appearing on the 2001 hit " Fiesta (Remix)" with R. Kelly and Jay-Z. The single peaked at number 6 on the ' ...

* Ben Okello Oluoch, Kenyan politician and host of the radio program ''Kogwen gi BOO''

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Boo (character) Boos, known in Japan as are fictional ghosts from the ''Mario'' and ''Yoshi'' series of video games. They first appeared as a common enemy in 1988's ''Super Mario Bros. 3'', in which they were called Boo Diddleys (a reference to the American blu ...

, a ghost character in the ''Mario'' series ** Boo (Sonic the Hedgehog character), a ghost character in ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series * Boo, a hamster belonging to

Minsc Minsc is a fictional character in the Baldur's Gate (series), ''Baldur's Gate'' series of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing video games developed by BioWare. He originated from the Pen-and-paper role-playing game, pen-and-paper ''Dungeons & D ...

in ''Baldur's Gate'', and a character in ''Megatokyo'' * Boo, a character in the Malaysian animated television series '' Boo & Me'' * Boo, a character in the manga and anime '' Crayon Shin-chan'' * Boo, a little girl voiced by Mary Gibbs in the 2001

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...

Pixar Pixar Animation Studios (commonly known as Pixar () and stylized as P I X A R) is an American computer animation studio known for its critically and commercially successful computer animated feature films. It is based in Emeryville, Californ ...

animated Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most ani ...

film '' Monsters, Inc.'' * Boo, Carrie Black's nickname in '' Orange Is the New Black'' *

Boo! (comic strip) Over the years the British comic magazine ''The Dandy'' has had many different strips ranging from humour strips to adventure strips to prose stories. However eventually the ''Dandy'' changed from having all these different types of strips to h ...

, a character in the British comic ''The Dandy'' created by Andy Fanton *

Majin Boo , generally spelled Majin Boo in subtitles of the Japanese anime, and rendered as Djinn-Boo in the Viz Media manga, is the final antagonist in the '' Dragon Ball'' manga series created by Akira Toriyama, before the release of ''Dragon Ball Sup ...

, an anime and manga character in ''Dragon Ball'' *

Boo Radley Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' was published in 1960. Instantly successful, widely read in middle and high schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize. She wrote the novel ...

, a character in the novel ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' and its adaptations * Boo, the title character in ''Boo!'' (TV series)

Films

* ''Boo'' (film), a 2005 horror film * '' B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations'', an animated film * ''Boo!'' (1932 film), a 1932 comedy film * ''Boo!'' (2018 film), a 2018 horror film * ''

Boo! A Madea Halloween ''Boo! A Madea Halloween'' is a 2016 American comedy horror film directed, written, starring and co-produced by Tyler Perry. The idea for the film originated from a fictitious Madea Halloween movie that was mentioned in Chris Rock's 2014 film '' ...

'', a 2016 horror comedy film ** ''

Boo 2! A Madea Halloween ''Boo 2! A Madea Halloween'' is a 2017 American comedy horror film written, produced, directed by and starring Tyler Perry and also starring Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Yousef Erakat, Diamond White, Lexy Panterra, Andre Hall, Brock O'Hurn, ...

'', a 2017 horror comedy film

Music

* ''Boo!'' (album), by Was (Not Was) *

Boo! (band) Boo! are a South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlanti ...

, a South African band * Born of Osiris, an American heavy metal band

Television

* ''Boo!'' (TV series), a 2003–2006 British children's series * , a Malaysian television channel owned by

Astro Astro may refer to: Entertainment and media * Astro (South Korean band), a South Korean boy band * Astro (UB40) (1957–2021), member of the British reggae band UB40 * Astro (Chilean band), a Chilean indie rock band * Astro (Japanese band), ...

* "Boo" (''CSI: NY''), a 2007 episode * "Boo" (''Dark Angel''), a 2001 episode * "Boo!" (''Frasier''), a 2004 episode * "Boo!" (''Roseanne''), a 1989 episode * "Boo!" (''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''), an episode of ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast''

Literature

* ''The Boo'' (book), by Pat Conroy

Computing and technology

Boo (programming language) Boo is an onomatopoeic word for a loud, startling sound, as an exclamation intended to scare, or as a call of derision (see booing). Boo or BOO may also refer to: Places * Boo (Aller), parish in Asturias, Spain * Boo, standard abbreviation for ...

.boo Kermit is a computer file transfer/management protocol and a set of communications software tools primarily used in the early years of personal computing in the 1980s. It provides a consistent approach to file transfer, terminal emulation, scr ...

, a binary-to-text encoding system

Languages

Boo dialect Central Teke is a member of the Teke languages dialect continuum A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the ...

, of the Teke-Ebo or Central Teke language, spoken in Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo *

Boko language (Benin) Boko, or Boo, is a Mande language of Benin and Nigeria. Names Boko language can be better known as Boko, but it is also known as Boo or with the Hausa name Busanci (also spelled Busanchi, Bussanci Or Bussanchi). One person or speaker is call ...

, also called Boo language *

Bomu language The Bo language of West Africa, ''Bomu (Boomu)'', also identified as Western Bobo Wule, is a Gur language of Burkina Faso and Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢� ...

, also called Boo, or Western Bobo Wule language *

Bozo language Bozo ( meaning house of straw) is a Mande language spoken by the Bozo people of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali. For Fishing, many Bozo are also found in other West African countries where there are Rivers and Dams, such as Nigeria, Burkina Faso a ...

, ISO 639 code boo, spoken in Mali

Other uses

Better Off Out Better Off Out (BOO) is the name of a non-party campaign that called for the United Kingdom (UK)'s withdrawal from the European Union (EU). It is run by The Freedom Association, a pressure group that describes itself as non-partisan, centre-ri ...

, a political campaign *

Black Oxygen Organics Black Oxygen Organics was a Canadian multi-level marketing (MLM) company which sold dirt at a price of per package to customers in Canada and the United States. History The company was founded in 2015 as NuWTR by Marc Saint-Onge, an evange ...

, a defunct multi-level marketing company *

Bladder outlet obstruction Bladder outlet obstruction (or obstructive uropathy) occurs when urine is unable to flow from the kidneys through the ureters and out of the bladder through the urethra. Decreased flow of urine leads to swelling of the urinary tract, called hydron ...

Boo (dog) Boo (March 16, 2006 – January 18, 2019) was a Pomeranian dog that had a popular Facebook page and was the subject of four photo-books. As of 2020, Boo had 16 million likes on Facebook. Boo was owned by Irene Ahn, a Facebook employee, who wa ...

(2006–2019) *

Boô A boô (also spelled boo or boe) is an old Saxon building where a farmer could spend the night with his cattle if he let them graze far outside the village. The buildings, which had separate areas for cattle and farmer to live, were made with chea ...

, a Saxon cattle shed * "Boo", a

term of endearment A term of endearment is a word or phrase used to address or describe a person, animal or inanimate object for which the speaker feels love or affection. Terms of endearment are used for a variety of reasons, such as parents addressing their ch ...

Boo FF Boo FF is a Swedish football club located in Boo in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County. Background The women's team Boo FF currently plays in Division 2 Södra Svealand which is the second tier of the Swedish football league system. They pla ...

, a Swedish football club in Boo, Stockholm *

Boo.com Boo.com was a short-lived British eCommerce business, founded in 1998 by Swedes Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin, who were regarded as sophisticated Internet entrepreneurs in Europe by the investors because they had created an on ...

, a clothing company * Build Own Operate, a form of infrastructure project operating concession