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Boomi
Boomi is a Conshohocken, Pennsylvania integration platform as a service (iPaaS) company founded by Rick Nucci in 2000, owned by Francisco Partners and TPG since a 2021 $4 billion carve-out from Dell, with over 30,000 customers and an AI agent platform.
Booming Ben
Booming Ben was the last heath hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido), a male grouse on Martha's Vineyard banded by Alfred O. Gross in 1931, last seen March 11, 1932; the subspecies was declared extinct in 1933.
Boompala
Boompala (붐팔라) is a 2026 song by the South Korean girl group LE SSERAFIM, released on May 22, 2026 as the title track of the album 'PUREFLOW' pt.1.
Boomslang
Boomslang (Dispholidus typus, Afrikaans for tree snake) is a dangerously venomous rear-fanged colubrid of sub-Saharan Africa, arboreal, haemotoxic venom, treated with monovalent South African antivenom.
Boomtown
Boomtown (La Fièvre de l'Or) is a 2004 auction card game by Bruno Cathala and Bruno Faidutti for 3–5 players, where winning bids are paid to neighboring players; 2005 Spiel des Jahres recommendation.
Boon Siang Yeo
Boon Siang Yeo, also published as Jason Yeo Boon Siang, is a Singapore electrochemist at the National University of Singapore working on converting carbon dioxide into fuels.
Boondocks
Boondocks: American English slang for a remote rural area, borrowed from Tagalog bundok (mountain) by US soldiers during the Philippine-American War; shortened to boonies in the Vietnam era.
Boone Carlyle
Boone Carlyle is a fictional character on ABC's Lost (2004–2010), played by Ian Somerhalder; a wealthy wedding-business heir and stepsister Shannon's devoted stepbrother, he was the first main character to die, in season one's "Do No Harm".
Boone County, Kentucky, United States
Boone County is a county in northern Kentucky along the Ohio River across from Cincinnati, named for pioneer Daniel Boone, with its county seat at Burlington.
Boone County, Missouri, United States
Boone County, Missouri: central Missouri county with county seat Columbia, organized 1820 from Howard County and named for Daniel Boone. Population 191,746 (2025 est.); home of the University of Missouri; FIPS 29019.
Boone North No. 1 Surface Coal Mine
The Boone North No. 1 Surface Coal Mine is a surface coal mine near Ashford in Boone County, West Virginia, most recently operated by Raven Crest Contracting and now mothballed.
Boone, North Carolina
Boone, North Carolina: Blue Ridge mountain town, county seat of Watauga County, incorporated 1872, home of Appalachian State University and a fall-leaf tourism economy hit by Hurricane Helene in 2024.
Boong
Boong is a 2024 Manipuri-language Indian coming-of-age drama directed by Lakshmipriya Devi, about a boy searching for his father near Moreh on the Myanmar border; it won Best Children's & Family Film at the 2026 BAFTAs, the first BAFTA won by an Indian film.
Boonie Bears (熊出没)
Boonie Bears (熊出没) is a Chinese 3D animated franchise by Fantawild Animation, premiering on CCTV-14 on January 22, 2012, starring bear brothers Briar and Bramble against Logger Vick, with annual Spring Festival films grossing over US$415 million.
Boonie Bears: Back to Earth
Boonie Bears: Back to Earth (熊出没·重返地球) is the eighth Boonie Bears film, a 2022 Chinese sci-fi animated comedy directed by Lin Huida, grossing about 977 million yuan, a Chinese New Year animation record.
Boonie Bears: Guardian Code
Boonie Bears: Guardian Code (熊出没·伴我“熊芯”) is a 2023 Chinese animated film, the ninth in the Boonie Bears franchise, directed by Lin Yongchang and Shao Heqi.
Boonie Bears: The Hidden Protector (熊出没·年年有熊)
Boonie Bears: The Hidden Protector (熊出没·年年有熊) is Fantawild's 2026 animated film, the 12th Boonie Bears movie and its first Chinese-fantasy entry, starring Briar, Bramble, and Vick against the Nian beast, earning 1.067 billion yuan in China.
Boonie hat
Boonie hat, also called sun hat or jungle hat (from Tagalog bundok): wide-brim military hat adopted by U.S. forces in Vietnam, with crown foliage loops, vents, chin cord, and MIL-DTL-44105 specification.
Boonlua Debyasuvarn
Boonlua Debyasuvarn, writing as Boonlua, was a Thai educator, critic, and novelist whose essays became the foundation of modern Thai literary criticism; UNESCO honored her centenary in 2012.
Boonsanong Punyodyana
Boonsanong Punyodyana (บุญสนอง บุณโยทยาน) was a Thai sociologist at Thammasat University who led the Socialist Party of Thailand and was assassinated in Bangkok in 1976, at age 39.
Boop
boop. is a 2022 two-player abstract strategy board game by Scott Brady, published by Smirk & Laughter Games; a cat-themed update of Gekitai in which placing pieces pushes neighbors and three cats in a row wins.
Boop! The Musical
BOOP! The Musical is a Broadway musical based on Betty Boop, with music by David Foster, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, book by Bob Martin, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. It premiered in Chicago in 2023, ran at the Broadhurst Theatre from April 5 to July 13, 2025, earned Jasmine Amy Rogers a Tony nomination, and launches a US tour in 2026.
Boophis
Boophis (bright-eyed frogs), genus of 88 arboreal mantellid frog species endemic to Madagascar and Mayotte; two subgenera, Boophis and Sahona, stream- and pond-breeders of Malagasy rainforests.
Boops boops
Boops boops, the bogue, is a large-eyed sea bream (Sparidae) from the Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Sea, intensively fished there; FAO code BOG, IUCN Least Concern, with Mediterranean stocks assessed as overexploited.
Boorman and the Devil
Boorman and the Devil is David Kittredge's 2025 documentary about John Boorman's disastrous 1977 sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic; it premiered at Venice, was released by Yellow Veil Pictures in 2026, and holds 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Boösaule Montes
Boösaule Montes is the highest known mountain on Jupiter's moon Io, about 17.5±3 km tall, a tectonic thrust block approved by the IAU in 1985, named for the cave where Io bore Epaphus.
Boosie Badazz
Boosie Badazz, born Torrence Hatch Jr. (1982), formerly Lil' Boosie, is a Baton Rouge rapper of Southern hip hop; Trill Entertainment artist behind Bad Azz, Superbad, and Touch Down 2 Cause Hell.
Boost (C++ libraries)
Boost is a collection of free, peer-reviewed, open-source C++ libraries extending the C++ Standard Library, proposed in 1998 by C++ Standards Committee members and now numbering over 180 libraries.
Boost converter
A boost converter, also called a step-up converter, is a DC-DC switching converter that produces a higher output voltage than its input, commonly used for power factor correction.
Boost Mobile (United States)
Boost Mobile is an American wireless service brand owned by EchoStar Corporation, founded in Australia in 2000 and sold to DISH Network in 2020 for $1.4 billion.