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BOOMERANG
Definition of BOOMERANG
noun
Any of various traditional throwing sticks used for hunting or combat by Australian aborigines, including the symmetrical, crescent-shaped, type (the returning boomerang).
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Where it comes from
Origin uncertain. Possibly from Thurawal. Long regarded as from the Sydney language, but early evidence unclear. The form boo-mer-it is glossed, c.1790, as 'scimeter' (i.e., scimitar) and the word bumarang, bumarañ is not explicitly recorded in the Sydney Language until 1903.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BOOMERANG · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOOMERANG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 19 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 6, 27 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 13 days.
First found by a player on Day 6, 27 May 2026.
Built from these letters
BOOMERANG starts with B and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ABEGMNOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BOOMER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 6
Could you have found BOOMERANG?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 6 - and most players walked straight past it.
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