boomer
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- noun
- /ˈbuːmər/
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baby boomer
- More than 75 million baby boomers will retire in that period.
- baby boomers
- boomers age
- boomers enter retirement
But if well, like my parents are boomers and don't feel trapped by them at all.
- But if well, like my parents are boomers and don't feel trapped by them at all.
- So we're going to spend trillions of dollars propping up boomers and capital.
- But again, that's like a story that I was told by the boomers about themselves.
- Old people love Apple news like boomers.
- I now confessed I'm a boomer myself.
- What was the what was the birth rate during baby boomer generation?
- Are you seeing any specific age groups, Millennials more than boomers, more than Xers, Any of that data?
- This one is titled Gratitude from a Boomer.
- The insurmountable worldview divide between the Boomers and the Zoomers.
- Then with Boomers, mental health starts to look worse across the board.
- Even though he was writing about the Boomers, the minimal self.
- But the boomers proved that because the boomers were those people.
- And mom and pop baby boomer goes, oh, the stock market's up.
- So on the like celebrities that are boomers or I don't know what to call them.
Examples
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The aging of the baby boomers presents difficult and unprecedented challenges.
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Economic progress was something baby boomers grew up taking for granted.
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And I think for like the baby boomer generation, the answer was like nothing.
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So it's good news for us, but it's bad news for the boomers, very bad news.
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Nearly 22,000 baby boomers in West Virginia have no health insurance as they near retirement.
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As the baby boomers enter retirement, there will be a windfall for universities.
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Demographic changes involve both the cohort of "baby-boomers" and our increased life span.
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Every day, thousands of baby boomers across the U.S. celebrate their retirement.
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The influence of the boomer generation is still felt in music and culture today.
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Many baby boomers are adapting to new technologies despite their initial resistance.
Synonyms
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A person born between 1946 and 1964 who grew up after World War II
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
boomer = baby boomer (transparent) = boom + er
Formed by clipping the agentive compound 'baby boomer' (it is clearly derived from 'baby boom' → 'baby boomer' → 'boomer').
Etymology
Boomer comes from the phrase baby boom, the time after World War II when there were many births. The boom part means a 'big increase', so a boomer is someone born during that postwar rise in births.