baby boomer
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪbi ˈbuːmər/
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baby boomer
- My sister Angela is the only baby boomer I know who's never tried any drugs at all.
- baby boomer retirement
- aging baby boomers
- baby boomer generation
You have some unkind words for baby boomers in your book as well.
- You have some unkind words for baby boomers in your book as well.
- Let's say first of all, we're the we're the baby boomers and we're handing down that wealth.
- And it's all the the generation after the baby boomers.
- The people, quote, UN quote in power, which is the government, are mostly baby boomers.
- What I do want is I want the baby boomers who've made this mess and can't see it to be gone.
- And people, I think are starting to see it, which is that we are, thankfully, I think going to have a marriage between baby boomers and young people.
- And I knew that there are more grandmothers in the country today and there have ever been just because of the baby boomers.
- And maybe baby boomers and and beyond that, we couldn't just easily go on Rotten Tomatoes or IMDb and look something up.
- And maybe baby boomers and and beyond, we couldn't just easily go on Rotten Tomatoes or IMDb and look something up.
- This is a baby boomer female from a red state and she has been in Pennsylvania for a week and she made us these darling Kamala Harris bracelets.
- Z are going to run shit A and just like the baby boomers did.
- So he's, he's essentially, you know, a baby boomer.
- I don't know if that will happen, but you know, a lot of people are stuck, like baby boomers are stuck in their homes.
Examples
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The baby boomer generation has significantly influenced American culture and economy since the 1960s.
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Most community college administrators are baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964.
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You know, I think baby boomers like it's time to move along.
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Economic progress was something baby boomers grew up taking for granted.
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Unless they make greater efforts, the legacy built by the baby boomers is in danger.
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More than 75 million baby boomers will retire in that period.
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Between 2010 and 2030, the baby boomers will join this older population.
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Rue described the difficulty many adult "baby boomers" encountered as they sought employment in a less than receptive economy.
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Bill Clinton may have epitomized this approach when he selected a fellow baby boomer, southerner, and moderate in 1992.
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In 2000, one-third of American grandparents were baby boomers (Longino & Earle, 1996).
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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A person born between 1946 and 1964
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'baby' (referring to the baby boom) with 'boomer' (a person born in that period): together they denote a member of the post‑WWII baby‑boom generation. This is a regular noun+noun compound pattern that learners who know the constituents can readily interpret (details like the exact date range are background cultural knowledge but not required to grasp the basic meaning).
Etymology
The name baby boomer comes from the phrase baby boom. After World War II there was a sudden, large rise in births — a 'boom' of babies — so people born in that time are called 'baby boomers'.