Synonyms for booster
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : boo-ster |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbu stər |
Définition of booster
Origin :- 1890, "one who boosts" something, agent noun from boost (v.). Electrical sense is recorded from 1894. Young child's booster chair is attested under that name from 1960.
- noun supporter
- The primary—ah, booster, as you say, breaks free at twelve miles.
- Extract from : « The Big Tomorrow » by Paul Lohrman
- Like the rest of you, I knew nothing of the true action of the booster.
- Extract from : « The Long Voyage » by Carl Richard Jacobi
- They haven't got the booster or anything like it, or they'd have used it.
- Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith
- One is reduced to the figures of the real estate "booster" for terms of proportion.
- Extract from : « California » by Mary Austin
- "Be a Booster," it advises, and no one can say that it does not live up to its principles.
- Extract from : « Abroad at Home » by Julian Street
- He supposed that, having found her out, there was no other line that "Booster" could have taken.
- Extract from : « The Tree of Heaven » by May Sinclair
- Evidently he disapproved of "Booster's" wife for the same reason that he disapproved of Vera.
- Extract from : « The Tree of Heaven » by May Sinclair
- So the affair of Nicky and "Booster's" wife was as if it had never been.
- Extract from : « The Tree of Heaven » by May Sinclair
- The superheater, the arch, the booster, and the feed-water heater together vastly increase the power of the steam locomotive.
- Extract from : « Our Railroads To-Morrow » by Edward Hungerford
- He laid over and sliced into a mass of Messerschmitts ahead of him, opening his throttle wide and cutting in his booster.
- Extract from : « A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. » by Rutherford G. Montgomery
Antonyms for booster
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