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Synonyms

  1. baby boomer

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. first
  2. old
  3. baby
  4. typical
  5. average
  6. big
  7. real
  8. young
  9. russian
  10. last

Categorically Similar

  1. cavil
  2. carton
  3. helo
  4. hera
  5. athena
  6. sooner
  7. tyrol
  8. raptor
  9. bea
  10. pont

What Google Knows

Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort following the Silent Generation and preceding Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom. The dates, the demographic context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country.

Related Definition

  1. boomer:

    n An adult male kangaroo.

    n Something that makes a booming sound.

    n (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.

    n A device used to bind or tighten chain.

    n (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.

    n (UK) A bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).

    n (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).

    n A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).

    n (realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.

    n (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation.

    n (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.

    n A surname.

    n (US, historical) A member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement.

    n (US, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”) [A surname.]

    n (informal) Ellipsis of baby boomer. [(sometimes capitalized) A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s), when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.]


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