echo boomn.

Brit.

/ˈɛkəʊ buːm/, U.S.

/ˈɛkoʊ ˌbum/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: echo n., boom n.³

Etymology: < echo n. + boom n.³, after baby boom n.

Originally U.S.

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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > population explosion

baby boom1879

bulge1930

population explosion1946

baby boomlet1963

echo boom1975

1975 Advocate (Newark, Ohio) 25 Aug. Population experts expected the postwar baby boom children, now grown, to produce an echo boom in the 1970s.

1981 Amer. 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.

1983 Population & 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.

1997 Maclean'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

ˈecho boomer n. a person born during the echo boom between the late 1970s and early 1990s.

ΚΠ

1985 Mountain 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.

2003 Observer 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.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	echo boom
释义	echo boomn. Brit. /ˈɛkəʊ buːm/, U.S. /ˈɛkoʊ ˌbum/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: echo n., boom n.³ Etymology: < echo n. + boom n.³, after baby boom n. Originally U.S. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > population explosion baby boom1879 bulge1930 population explosion1946 baby boomlet1963 echo boom1975 1975 Advocate (Newark, Ohio) 25 Aug. Population experts expected the postwar baby boom children, now grown, to produce an echo boom in the 1970s. 1981 Amer. 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. 1983 Population & 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. 1997 Maclean'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 ˈecho boomer n. a person born during the echo boom between the late 1970s and early 1990s. ΚΠ 1985 Mountain 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. 2003 Observer 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. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1975
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