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oom¹

  • /ʊəm/ General South African
  • /ʊm/ UK

Rhymes with -ʊəm, -ʊm

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Afrikaans oom. Doublet of eam and ohm.

noun ooms

  1. South Africa An older man, especially an uncle. (Frequently as a respectful form of address.) He raised his glass. ‘Here's to you, Oom Ben,’ he said. ‘Give them hell.’

OOM²

Where it comes from

By initialism or acronymy.

phrase

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of out of memory If you write infinitely recursive code, you might generate an OOM error.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of out of mana

noun OOMs

  1. An instance of an out of memory error.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of order of magnitude

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@misc{oom_2026,
  title = {oom},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}