Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. A community that experiences sudden and rapid growth. n. A community that experiences sudden and rapid growth.
WordNet
n. a town enjoying sudden prosperity
Wikipedia
Boom Town is a 1940 American adventure film starring Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, and Hedy Lamarr, and directed by Jack Conway. The supporting cast features Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, and Chill Wills. A story written by James Edward Grant in Cosmopolitan magazine entitled "A Lady Comes to Burkburnett" provided the inspiration for the film. The film was produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
"Boom Town" is the eleventh episode of the first series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, the episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 4 June 2005. It was written by executive producer Russell T Davies and directed by Joe Ahearne.
In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor ( Christopher Eccleston) and his companions Rose Tyler ( Billie Piper) and Jack Harkness ( John Barrowman) travel to modern-day Cardiff and meet up with Rose's boyfriend, Mickey Smith ( Noel Clarke). There, they discover that a recent enemy, a Slitheen named Margaret Blaine ( Annette Badland), survived the events of " Aliens of London"/" World War Three" and is willing to destroy the planet to ensure her freedom.
"Boom Town" was a replacement episode for a story that was to be written by Paul Abbott, but he had to abandon the script because he had other commitments. Davies decided to write a different story centred on bringing Badland's character back from the fourth and fifth episodes in the series, as he had enjoyed her performances. Primarily, Davies wanted to explore the consequences of the Doctor's actions and question whether he had the right to sentence an enemy to death. The episode was also intended to showcase Cardiff, where the revived Doctor Who series is made, and where the episode was filmed in February 2005. "Boom Town" was watched by 7.68 million viewers in the United Kingdom and received mixed reviews from critics.
Boom Town is a structured- reality television and comedy sketch show series produced by independent company Knickerbockerglory for BBC. It first aired on BBC Three in August and September 2013. Directed by Hannah Springham and produced by Jonathan Stadlen, the series features a cast of eccentrics playing their own alter-egos, including their "own catchphrases, eccentricities and larger than life personalities".
Usage examples of "boom town".
He had parked at the end of the old town's main street, the beginning of the boom town's chief thoroughfare.
Fifty milliseconds later, every enemy tank would be simultaneously destroyed in the same manner, followed closely by everything else, including the tunnel to New Serbia and the local boom town where most of the Serbian troops were watering.
Huts were being hammered together for enlisted personnel like a Gold Rush boom town.
Grantville had become a seventeenth-century German version of a Wild West boom town.
Some of them had come to work for the contractors, some to work for NASA, some to work for this or that business that was starting up in the little boom town—.
Paradise, Arizona, was a hard little boom town, which owed its existence to the breeder plant.
That raw boom town had nothing much in the way of a police force, outside of the few areas where Swedish or U.
With all the corners and goers in a boom town like Leadville, there's to% and Ruby Shaw was a pretty woman, by most accounts, and pretty women are hard to keep out of sight.
There is no better place than a hotel lobby in a boom town for picking up information .