boomerasking

A 21st-century way to describe a conversational faux pas as old as time. "Boomerasking" - a play on boomerang - is the habit of asking questions of your interlocutor in the naked hope of having the same question asked in return.

For instance, asking a colleague "Are you going on holiday this year?" while cueing up a lengthy monologue on your own travel plans when they inevitably ask: "And you?".
This is a Boomerasking example

by anonymous January 29, 2025

Boomeranging

Repeating the words of another participant during a texting session.

John: Hi!
Susan: Hi!

John: I hear an echo...
Susan: I hear an echo...

John: As long as you recognize it's like a boomerang
Susan: I'm boomeranging

by squashedblueberry June 4, 2013

Boomeraging

When a boomer is extremely mad

*Old lady screams at a bunch of kids playing basketball*
Kid 1: look at her, she is boomeraging LOL.

by TeddyE3' December 11, 2019

Boomeranging

The art of breaking up with a significant other to have a brief relationship before returning to your original partner.

My girlfriend was boomeranging with some spanish guy, but she's back with me now.

by Mr Craig January 11, 2014

boomeranging

(1) verb: to send back something to a person that they originally sent to you; to return to sender
In reference to the Australian Aboriginal hunting instrument the Boomerang.
(2) verb: to quickly return something to the source

EMAIL:
(1) Receiving a file back that you originally sent to someone, where the person who sent it us unaware they got it from you:
REPLY: "hey, thanks for boomeranging me that video, it's always nice to watch things twice :)"
(2) Used for sending someone back something intentionally as part of a reply to a message.
REPLY: "Good luck with the job Interview, and I can't help boomeranging this picture back to you."

by rydstbomel September 25, 2005

Boomeranging

Changing your mind over and over again

Yani is boomeranging. She can't decide what she wants to eat.

by CASSMONEY24 June 15, 2021