Boo
Appearance
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, Ghana, a town in Lawra District in the Upper West Region
- Boo, Guinea, in Nzérékoré Prefecture
- Boo (Aller), parish in Asturias, Spain
- Boo, Sweden, locality in Stockholm County
- Boo Islands, West Papua, Indonesia
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
Characters
- Boo Radley, in the novel To Kill Mockingbird and its adaptations
- Boo (character), a ghost character in the Mario series
- Majin Boo, an anime and manga character in Dragon Ball
- Boo, a human baby girl in the animated film Monsters, Inc.
- Boo, a hamster belonging to Minsc in Baldur's Gate, and a character in Megatokyo
- Boo, a character in the manga and anime Crayon Shin-chan
- Boo! (comic strip), a character in the British comic The Dandy created by Andy Fanton
- Boo, nickname of Carrie Black in Orange Is the New Black
- Boo, in the Malaysian animated television series Boo & Me
- Boo, a character from Monsters Inc
Film and television
- Boo! A Madea Halloween, a 2016 horror comedy film
- Boo! (film), a 1932 comedy film
- Boo (film), a 2005 horror film
- B.O.O.: Bureau of Otherworldly Operations, an animated film slated for release in 2015
- Boo! (TV series), a 2003 BBC children's television series
- "Boo" (CSI: NY episode)
- "Boo!" (a.k.a. I'm With Her), a 2004 episode of Frasier
- "Boo" (Dark Angel), an episode of the television series Dark Angel
Music
- Boo! (band), a South African band
- Born of Osiris, an extreme metal band
- Boo! (album), by Was (Not Was)
Abbreviations, acronyms and codes
- Boo, standard abbreviation for the constellation Boötes
- BOO, IATA airport code for Bodø Airport in Norway
- boo, ISO 639 code for the Bozo language, spoken in Mali
- Build Own Operate, a form of infrastructure project operating concession
- Better Off Out, a political campaign
Other uses
- "Boo", a term of endearment
- Boo FF, a Swedish football club in Boo, Stockholm
- Boô, a Saxon cattle shed
- Boo (programming language)
- Boo, a dialect of the Central Teke language, spoken in Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Boo.com, a clothing company
- The Boo (book), by Pat Conroy
- Boo (dog) (born 2006)
- .boo, a binary-to-text encoding system developed by Columbia University for its Kermit protocol