overboom
verbEtymology From over- + boom.
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To grow or progress too quickly, resulting in the crash of (something).
- Its various resources are so vast that there is no possibility of overbooming the country. There is now a limitless demand for people of at least average intelligence and industry and with some money with which to get a fair start.1909, Malton-Colony: Sacramento Valley California, page 5:
- There is always a possibility that too much competition will result in overbooming the market, and result in a break, which will set things down for a time.1921, Leather & Shoes, volume 62, page 75:
1 more example
- Are we in danger of overbooming the boom? There are good reasons to believe that we are making good progress toward depression-proofing the economy.1956, Steel, volume 138, page 102: