boster

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UK/ˈbɒstə/

noun

A particularly impressive and admirable person or thing.

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Meanings

boster1

nounboster (plural bosters)

plural bosters

  1. EnglandWest MidlandsdialectalA particularly impressive and admirable person or thing.

    Then the fat woman! ooh, my word! she wor a boster; […]

    1915, Bernard Gilbert, “Lincoln Fair”, in Gone to the War: And Other Poems in the Lincolnshire Dialect, London: J. W. Ruddock & Sons, page 80

Boster2

proper nounBoster (plural Bosters)

plural Bosters

  1. A surname.

Origin

Possibly representing an alteration of burster.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

strobesorbetStoberbesortOberts
Cite this entry
APA

boster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boster

MLA

“boster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boster. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boster,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boster.

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