Boomerasking (noun) (informal)
boo-mer-ask-ing
When someone asks you a question — “How was your vacation?” — but they don’t really care about your response because they just want to answer it themselves.
Coined by Brooks and Yeomans and published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the term combines the words boomerang and asking into a portmanteau that describes a familiar three-part sequence: (1) Pose a question; (2) let the other person answer; (3) boomerang it right back with your own story!
Example sentences
“Someone just asked about my trip, but they were just boomerasking and then I had to spend ages listening to them talk about their own holiday!”
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