boomern.1
/ˈbuːmə/, U.S. /ˈbumər/ One who ‘booms’ or pushes an enterprise. U.S. slang.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > speculation > speculator
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1883 Times 26 Sept. 8 [He] is a North-Western ‘boomer’ of great earnestness.
1885 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 19 Aug. 2/4 The Oklahoma boomers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
boomern.2
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a. A name given in Australia to the male of the largest species of kangaroo.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > kangaroo > male
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > kangaroo > male > large male
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1830 Hobart Town Almanack 110 Snapped the boomah's haunches, and he turned round to offer battle.
1852 L. A. Meredith My Home in Tasmania I. 244 The oldest and heaviest male of the herd was called a ‘Boomer’.
1881 Times 28 Jan. 3/4 The marsupial with a body which surpassed in bulk that of the ‘boomer’.
1925 H. Graham Last of Biffins ii. 28 A man whom even the older kangaroos (‘boomers’ as they are locally called) looked up to.
1967 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 2 Catching boomers isn't easy because they are big kangaroos.
b. transferred. Something very large or notable of its kind. Australian slang.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind
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1885 Australasian Printers' Keepsake 76 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.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 12 Boomer, a particularly ambitious lie. Used loosely to denote anything large or noteworthy.
1962 Austral. Women's Weekly Suppl. 24 Oct. 3/1 Boomer, big wave.
2. A trappers' name for the North American rodent Haplodon rufus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Aplodontidae (mountain beaver)
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1890 Chambers's Encycl. V. 550 The trappers call it the ‘Boomer’ or ‘Mountain Beaver’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
boomern.3
/ˈbuːmə/, U.S. /ˈbumər/ Chiefly North American.
= baby boomer n.
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1976 Toronto 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.
1985 Fortune 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.
1990 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News 6 Mar. e5/1 Can a boomer grow out of ‘thirtysomething’?
2003 Business 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).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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