Usually means: Shock wave from supersonic travel.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. sonic boom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sonic boom: Merriam-Webster
  3. sonic boom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sonic boom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sonic boom: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sonic boom: Vocabulary.com
  7. sonic boom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sonic boom: Wiktionary
  9. sonic boom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sonic boom: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sonic boom, boom, sonic: Dictionary.com
  12. Sonic Boom (Kiss album), Sonic Boom (Lee Morgan album), Sonic Boom (TV series), Sonic Boom, Sonic boom (disambiguation), Sonic boom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sonic boom: Rhymezone
  14. sonic boom: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sonic boom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sonic boom: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sonic boom: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sonic Boom: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. SONIC BOOM: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sonic boom)

noun:  (physics, aerodynamics) The audible effect of a shock wave in the air, especially one caused by an aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound.
verb:  To produce such an effect.

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