boohoo
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They're on the show to bring enough attention to their Instagram accounts, sell some diet teas, possibly land a fashion collaboration with boohoo or some other Instagram boutique.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2021
“I can’t wait to get up here on a Friday evening, and I boohoo all the way home on Sunday nights.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2019
You will look at his earnings and mock him with a boohoo.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019
But if you chop, cut, crush or smash one — boohoo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2017
The children set up a boohoo that brought Mr. Hobbs from the front doorstep where he had been sitting smoking.
From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by John Maurice Miller
Then he hands it off to Greg who reads from a soulless statement informing them they've all been fired as Tom fake boohoos off camera.
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
Big boohoos, with little squeals of frustration when she punches her teddy bear.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
“I boohooed through it. When we were writing about it, I started crying,” said Kinsey, who played the stickler, cat-loving accountant, Angela Martin.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2022
He claimed it had been boohooed as it was dangerous but no fire could happen as it’s all stone.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2020
When they went to bat, they were "boohooed" from their opponents' bench.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mother said when Marster come he wus dead shore enough, dat marster jest boohooed an' went to de house, an' wouldn't look at him no more till dey started to take him to de grave.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by Various
If de Lord in his goodness take you away, let me go wid you, Missus;' and I was so sorry I boohooed right out, and groaned and wipy eye like courtin' amost.
From Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A majority of the characters hold Hollywood jobs — save for a poet, a musician and a blogger — and an oddly large number are recently single and boohooing over their exes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
But no amount of boohooing about being lonely and listening to Snow Patrol is going to make it any better.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2012
A few million of her admirers, who have found her vastly appealing, might join in her "detestable boohooing," as Henry Higgins called it.
From Time Magazine Archive
“So spare me your boohooing and your fairytales and just own up to what you did.”
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
Even Curtis is sitting there boohooing like a dang fool!
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
