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▪ I. boomer1|ˈbuːmə(r)|
[f. boom v.3 2.]
One who ‘booms’ or pushes an enterprise. U.S. slang.
1883Times 26 Sept. 8 [He] is a North-Western ‘boomer’ of great earnestness. 1885Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 19 Aug. 2/4 The Oklahoma boomers.
▪ II. ˈboomer2
Also formerly boomah.
a. A name given in Australia to the male of the largest species of kangaroo.
1830Ross Hobart Town Almanack 110 (Morris), Snapped the boomah's haunches, and he turned round to offer battle. 1852L. A. Meredith My Home in Tasmania I. 244 (Morris), The oldest and heaviest male of the herd was called a ‘Boomer’. 1881Times 28 Jan. 3/4 The marsupial with a body which surpassed in bulk that of the ‘boomer’. 1925H. Graham Last of Biffins ii. 28 A man whom even the older kangaroos (‘boomers’ as they are locally called) looked up to. 1967Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 2 Catching boomers isn't easy because they are big kangaroos.
b. transf. Something very large or notable of its kind. Austral. slang.
1885Australasian Printers' Keepsake 76 (Morris), When the shades of evening come, I choose a boomer of a gum. 1928‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country xiii. 135 Old Healey is always telling some boomer of a scandal behind people's backs. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 12 Boomer, a particularly ambitious lie. Used loosely to denote anything large or noteworthy. 1962Austral. Women's Wkly. Suppl. 24 Oct. 3/1 Boomer, big wave.
▪ III. boomer, n.3 Chiefly N. Amer.
Brit. |ˈbuːmə|, U.S. |ˈbumər|
[Short for baby boomer n. at baby n. Compounds 2.]
= baby boomer n. at baby n. Compounds 2.
1976Toronto Star 24 Jan. (Canad. Suppl.) 4/3 The young always go through a period of rejecting the parent generation's values and structures, and the boomers did it more completely than ever. 1985Fortune 15 Apr. 15/3 Not only must they find gainful jobs for their boomers..they also have fewer workers in the productive 25- to 65-year age group to carry the social costs imposed by the very young and the very old. 1990San Jose (Calif.) Mercury 6 Mar. e5/1 Can a boomer grow out of ‘thirtysomething’? 2003Business Rev. Weekly 23 Jan. 70/2 Boomers are an important target market for music retailers, who say they are the biggest buyers of back catalogue (reissued albums and greatest-hits collections). |