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English
Etymology
Reborrowed from Japanese ボール (bōru, “board”), itself from English board. Alternatively, an abbreviation of the term Danbooru (from Japanese 段ボール, danbōru, “corrugated cardboard”), the name of a particular imageboard software product.
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Noun
booru (plural boorus)
- (Internet) A form of imageboard where images are categorized with tags.
2021 February, Retromorpher, Casual Discussion Fridays - Week of February 05, 2021:If you could remember the name of the artist, there's a decent chance one of those booru projects have it.
2019 February, Proton Jon, “Twitter - Proton John”, in Twitter:We've created a Booru for fanart posts now for the community to use.
2018 December, Neikki, Looking for a "booru" browser:I would like an app that let you add booru sites and that can support a large number of them (Danbooru, Safebooru, Zerochan, Anime-Pictures, ...).
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