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"ref": "2012, Reginald Killings, I Am Drama City: Trust, Love, Loyalty Is All We Know, Xlibris, page 34",
"text": "I'm still going through so much shock. I can't go through all this. My stomach is rumbling. I have to use the restroom so bad. I was about to boo boo on myself but I remembered what the nurse told me the earlier.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, /u/thesnakeinthegarden, “Oh god. Donna Brazile opened her mouth again.”, in Reddit",
"text": "We didn't start demonizing Socialists until the 50s when everyone boo-booed they pants about communist russia.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, /u/Dwelld, “What was the worst situation you have crapped your pants?”, in Reddit",
"text": "Imagine a little kid in a big ass button down coat sitting in a car and then just saying I boo booed on myself.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To defecate."
],
"links": [
[
"childish",
"childish"
],
[
"defecate",
"defecate"
]
],
"qualifier": "by or to young children",
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial, childish, by or to young children) To defecate."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"childish"
],
"word": "poo"
},
{
"word": "defecate"
}
],
"tags": [
"childish",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbuːˌbuː/",
"tags": [
"Canada"
]
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/En-us-boo-boo.ogg/En-us-boo-boo.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/En-us-boo-boo.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "booboo"
},
{
"word": "boo boo"
}
],
"word": "boo-boo"
}
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