Meanings
plural boorus
- InternetA form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.
We've created a Booru for fanart posts now for the community to use.
2019 February 28, Proton Jon, “Twitter - Proton John”, in Twitter2 more examples
If you could remember the name of the artist, there's a decent chance one of those booru projects have it.
2021 February 28, Retromorpher, Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of February 05, 2021I would like an app that let you add booru sites and that can support a large number of them (Danbooru, Safebooru, Zerochan, Anime-Pictures, ...).
2018 December 28, Neikki, Looking for a "booru" browser
Origin
- Englishboard
- Japaneseボール“board”
- Englishbooru
Reborrowed from Japanese ボール (bōru, “board”), itself from English board. Alternatively, an abbreviation of the term Danbooru (from Japanese 段ボール, danbōru, “corrugated cardboard”), the name of a particular imageboard website that uses an image of a brown cardboard box as its logo.
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Cite this entry
booru. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/booru
“booru.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/booru. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “booru,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/booru.
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