Boo

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
• Boo, Ghana, a town in Lawra District in the Upper West RegionDeja
• Boo, Guinea, in Nzérékoré Prefecture; see List of schools in Ghana
• Boo, Sweden, locality in Stockholm County
• Bodø Airport in Norway, IATA airport code BOO
• Boo Islands, 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 (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
• Ben Okello Oluoch, Kenyan politician and host of the radio program Kogwen gi BOO

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Boo (character), 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 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 human baby girl in the animated film Monsters, Inc.
• Boo, Carrie Black's nickname in Orange Is the New Black
• Boo! (comic strip), a character in the British comic The Dandy created by Andy Fanton
• Majin Boo, 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, a 2016 horror comedy film
  • Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, a 2017 horror comedy film

Music

• Boo! (album), by Was (Not Was)
• Boo! (band), a South African band
• Born of Osiris, an American heavy metal band

Television

• Boo! (TV series), a 2003–2006 British children's series
• "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, 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), also called Boo language
• Bomu language, also called Boo, or Western Bobo Wule language
• Bozo language, 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
• Boo (dog) (2006–2019)
• Boô, a Saxon cattle shed
• "Boo", a term of endearment
• Boo FF, a Swedish football club in Boo, Stockholm
• Boo.com, a clothing company
• Build Own Operate, a form of infrastructure project operating concession

See also

• Big Boo (disambiguation)
• BO2 (disambiguation)
• Boo Boo (disambiguation)
• Boo language (disambiguation)
• Boos (disambiguation)
• Buu (disambiguation)