I was talking with my girlfriend recently, and I told her that her “RA Class” (RA is short for resident assistant, someone who lives on campus to assist other residents) is a “Boom Boom” class. She is from Niceville and had never heard of the term. I knew it as a slang term for a low level class that required no effort, taken simply for credit.
In an effort to locate some sort of source for my definition besides anecdotes of the people I knew, I was only able to find other personal references (myspace, facebook) coincidentally from people in Tampa. Turns out that this term appears to originate specifically from Tampa!
Here is my evidence:
- Urban Dictionary Claiming this fact
- Google Results only turning up myspace pages in Tampa and Arizona?
- More Google on forum hits, again only Tampa and Arizona specific things
- Nothing on Wikipedia
- That is all I have. Its mostly anecdotal.
This blog is “boom boom” =P
Did I use the phrase correctly?
I concur, I asked a few people in the office and only the ones from Tampa have heard the phrase “Boom Boom.” I think you’re on to something Mr.xKyle!
I am from Tampa and have used this term since elementary school. I also use “boom Boom” is place of terms such as stupid in conversation. I was not aware that it was a Tampa term until I moved to Denver this year & people had no idea what I was talking about.
haha, i think i’ve heard this before but can’t remember. more commonly they’re called fluff classes i think
I am also from Tampa, and I have used this since elementary school and I have asked all my neighboring friends in florda (Miami and Orlando) and none of them understand the word boom boom class.