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 the constellation
Boötes
Boötes ( ) is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension on the celestial sphere. The name comes from la, Boōtēs, which comes from grc-gre, Βοώτης, Boṓtēs ...
* Boo, Ghana, a town in
Lawra District 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 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
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 (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 b ...
, 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 animated film ''
Monsters, Inc.
''Monsters, Inc.'' (also known as ''Monsters, Incorporated'') is a 2001 American computer-animated Monster movie, monster comedy film produced by Pixar, Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Featuring the voices of John Goodman, B ...
''
* Boo, Carrie Black's nickname in ''
Orange Is the New Black
''Orange Is the New Black'' (sometimes abbreviated to ''OITNB'') is an American comedy-drama streaming television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir '' Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Wo ...
''
*
Boo! (comic strip), 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, 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, and ...
'', 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
Born of Osiris is an American progressive metalcore band formed in 2003 in Palatine, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The band currently consists of lead vocalist Ronnie Canizaro, lead guitarist Lee McKinney, rhythm guitarist/bassist Nick Rossi, ...
, 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
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''The Boo'' (book), by Pat Conroy
Computing and technology
*
Boo (programming language)
*
.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, 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, 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 an ...
, ISO 639 code boo, spoken in Mali
Other uses
*
Better Off Out, a political campaign
*
Black Oxygen Organics, 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 Urinary bladder, bladder through the urethra. Decreased flow of urine leads to swelling of the urinary tra ...
*
Boo (dog) (2006–2019)
*
Boô, a Saxon cattle shed
* "Boo", a
term of endearment
*
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 play ...
, 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
Build may refer to:
* Engineering something
* Construction
* Physical body stature, especially muscle size; usually of the human body
* Build (game engine), a 1995 first-person shooter engine
* "Build" (song), a 1987 song by The Housemartins
* ...
, a form of infrastructure project operating concession
See also
*
Big Boo (disambiguation) Big Boo may refer to:
*Big Boo, a larger and stronger version of Boo in the ''Mario'' franchise
*Carrie "Big Boo" Black, a character in the television series ''Orange Is the New Black'' (2013)
See also
* Boo (disambiguation)
* Big Bad Boo, Cana ...
*
BO2 (disambiguation)
*
Boo Boo (disambiguation)
*
Boo language (disambiguation) Boo language may refer to:
* Boo (programming language)
* Boo dialect, of the Teke-Ebo language
* Boko language (Benin), also called Boo language
* Bomu language, also called Boo, or Western Bobo Wule language
*Bozo language, ISO 639 code boo, spoke ...
*
Boos (disambiguation)
Boos or BOOS may refer to:..
Places
*Boos, Bavaria, in Bavaria, Germany
*Boos, Bad Kreuznach, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
*Boos, Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
* Boos, Seine-Maritime, in Seine-Maritime, France
*Boos, Landes ...
*
Buu (disambiguation)
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