BOOST
What does "BOOST" mean?
To push or lift something upward, or to help increase its level, amount, or strength.
Meanings
- To increase or improve something such as a quantity, value, or morale. A good night's sleep can boost your concentration the next day.
- To lift or push someone or something upward from below. She boosted the toddler up so he could see over the fence.
- An act or source of increase, encouragement, or help. The award gave her career a much-needed boost.
- To steal something, especially from a shop. He got caught boosting a watch from the display. informal
Word origin
Of American origin, first recorded in the early 1800s; the ultimate source is uncertain, with no agreed earlier root.
Remember it
BOOST sounds like a rocket 'boost'-er - the double O is the push of two engines firing.
A little poem
One cupped hand beneath a heel-
small lift, and suddenly walls are real.
couplet
Wordplay
- I gave my phone a battery boost and my ego a confidence boost. Now both of us are charged.
What it teaches
A boost is borrowed height: useful to climb by, dangerous to mistake for your own.
Quick facts
What does BOOST mean?
To push or lift something upward, or to help increase its level, amount, or strength.
Is BOOST a valid word?
Yes — BOOST is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BOOST?
BOOST has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does BOOST come from?
Of American origin, first recorded in the early 1800s; the ultimate source is uncertain, with no agreed earlier root.
What can BOOST teach us?
A boost is borrowed height: useful to climb by, dangerous to mistake for your own.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.