| 释义 |
echo boom, n. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈɛkəʊ buːm|, U.S. |ˈɛkoʊ ˌbum|
[‹ echo n. + boom n.3, after baby boom n. at baby n. Compounds 2.]
A period of marked increase in the birth rate resulting from children born in a previous baby boom themselves becoming parents; spec. that between the late 1970s and early 1990s, when children of the post-Second World War baby boom became parents.
1975Advocate (Newark, Ohio) (Electronic text) 25 Aug. Population experts expected the postwar baby boom children, now grown, to produce an echo boom in the 1970s. 1981Amer. Banker (Nexis) 6 Mar. 12 The increased birthrate of 1980 could be signaling the beginning of a delayed ‘echo boom’, but demographers are not yet convinced this is the case. 1983Population & Devel. Rev. 9 102 There has been an ‘echo boom’ reflected in small annual increases in the number of births that has been mainly caused by the continuing upward pressure exerted by the large cohorts born in the early 1960s. 1997Maclean's 29 Dec. 17/1 The 18- to 29-year-old baby busters (so-called because there are relatively few of them, squeezed between the boomers and the boomers' children, the so-called echo boom, now aged 4 to 17).
Derivatives. echo boomer n. a person born during the echo boom between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
1985Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 18 Sept. (Foothill Issue section) 8/2 As the so-called ‘*echo-boomers’—the children of the ‘baby boomers’—enter their youthful, more crime-prone years, the crime rate might rise again. 2003Observer 31 Aug. (Cash section) 19/5 The average English baby boomer, and certainly the echo boomer (children of baby boomers), will be faced with maintenance bills that might be 10 per cent to 20 per cent of their annual income over several years. |