Boo (disambiguation)

Boo has many meanings, and may be:

In linguistics:

• An exclamation in English used to evoke or suggest surprise, typically associated with ghosts.
• A jeer, used to express one's distaste of a performance or action, especially in entertainment

In entertainment:

• A male rap artist, member of Young Money
• Boo!, a South African pop group

• Boo, a character from the Mario video game series.
• Boo (Monsters, Inc.), a character from the computer-animated film Monsters, Inc.
• Boo is the nickname of Arthur Radley, a character in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird.
• Boo!, an English children's edutainment show made with CGI techniques
• Boo is the title of a short film produced in 1932 by Universal Studios that parodies its monster films of the time.
• Boo, a 2005 low budget horror film. IMDB profile here.
• Boo (Dragon Ball) (also known as "Buu"), a character in the manga Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z and the anime Dragon Ball Z.

In computers:

• Boo programming language, an object-oriented, statically typed programming language for the Common Language Infrastructure.
• boo.com, an infamous dot-com clothing company which went bust.
• The pet Miniature Giant Space Hamster of Minsc in the Baldur's Gate role-playing computer game series.
• Boo is a minor character in the webcomic series Megatokyo and acts as a conscience to Largo - one of the main characters.

Other meanings:

• Boötes, standard astronomical abbreviation
• Boo is the nickname for the galaxy IC 1029.
• An alternate spelling for Boô (a Saxon cattle shed).

Slang:

• boyfriend/girlfriend, a slang term, usually considered to be Ebonics
• Pre-tween son or daughter, a nickname perhaps derived from a character in the film Monsters, Inc.
• Marijuana, slang term

Boos is the name of two communes in France:

• Boos, Landes
• Boos, Seine-Maritime

Surname

• Martin Boos, Catholic theologian

Engineering

• Build own operate

BOO is also an acronym and may refer to:

• Base of operations