"top one's boom" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally referring to maximizing the sail on a ship.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tops one's boom",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "topping one's boom",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "topped one's boom",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "topped one's boom",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "top one's boom (third-person singular simple present tops one's boom, present participle topping one's boom, simple past and past participle topped one's boom)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Chartley Castle, Harold Overdon, ashore and afloat, page 98",
          "text": "Her husband had topped his boom, and so had his Lordship.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, Nauticus, Nauticus on his hobby horse, or the adventures of a sailor during a tricycle cruise of 1427 miles",
          "text": "With my usual luck I found that the castle would not be open until three o'clock, as it was now noon I did not care to wait all that time, so \"topping my boom\" we went on to Tonbridge Wells by a hilly road.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, William Stamer, Recollections of a Life of Adventure - Volume 1, page 128",
          "text": "So, buoyant with the hope of being able to make up for my increased expenditure by happy speculations in the share market, I at once topped my boom, and without a single misgiving for the future got quickly under way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart quickly."
      ],
      "id": "en-top_one's_boom-en-verb-tmKInNo8",
      "links": [
        [
          "depart",
          "depart"
        ],
        [
          "quick",
          "quick"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "top one's boom"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally referring to maximizing the sail on a ship.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tops one's boom",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "topping one's boom",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "topped one's boom",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "topped one's boom",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "top one's boom (third-person singular simple present tops one's boom, present participle topping one's boom, simple past and past participle topped one's boom)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Chartley Castle, Harold Overdon, ashore and afloat, page 98",
          "text": "Her husband had topped his boom, and so had his Lordship.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880, Nauticus, Nauticus on his hobby horse, or the adventures of a sailor during a tricycle cruise of 1427 miles",
          "text": "With my usual luck I found that the castle would not be open until three o'clock, as it was now noon I did not care to wait all that time, so \"topping my boom\" we went on to Tonbridge Wells by a hilly road.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, William Stamer, Recollections of a Life of Adventure - Volume 1, page 128",
          "text": "So, buoyant with the hope of being able to make up for my increased expenditure by happy speculations in the share market, I at once topped my boom, and without a single misgiving for the future got quickly under way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To depart quickly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "depart",
          "depart"
        ],
        [
          "quick",
          "quick"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "top one's boom"
}