Illustration: Inside a neighborhood variety shop, customers of different ages crowd around a display of miniature knitted frog charms. A school student, an office worker, and an elderly shopper already have the same conspicuous frog dangling from their bags, yet all eagerly reach toward the few remaining charms.

ブーム

buumu

boom, craze

Example sentences

小型車こがたしゃのブームは終おわろうとしている。
The small car boom is ending.
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ブームは峠とうげを越こした。
The boom has peaked out.
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日本にっぽんの漫画まんがは大規模だいきぼなブームを起おこした。
Japanese comics have boomed on a large scale.
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