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Definition of boomer in English: boomernoun ˈbuːməˈbumər informal 1North American short for baby boomer Example sentencesExamples - Young parents in their twenties and thirties are ‘nostalgic for the childhood that boomers supposedly had,’ as American Demographics has put it.
- Currently, the median age for the boomers is around 50.
- The boomers are so into family values right now because they have kids.
- Generation Y - for those mercifully not in the know - is the generation after the generation (Gen X) that came after the boomers.
- I mean, as self-serious and righteous and vaguely uncool as they are, at least the boomers are obsessed with stuff like politics and the Beatles.
- The boomers can't put off for any longer the fact that - chronologically - they are approaching middle age.
- One obvious explanation is that boomers intend to live forever.
- Generation Xers are saving at a greater pace than boomers did when they were that age.
- And, as the boomers age, you know, we feel that we're entitled to good health to the end of time and so I think we will be noisy enough.
- These ambitious boomers, leading separate yet intertwined lives, still seem to love each other in a perplexingly modern marriage-in-progress.
- Punk and New Wave infuriated the boomers, because it was the first hint they were old.
- All the boomers are just going to have to face that fact of life.
- The boomers will require not only solutions for their serious health issues, but also some innovative gadgets to help them ease into old age.
- And yes, I know I'm older than most on this blog and yes, we boomers have loosened the bonds of marriage, defined our rights in terms of our desires.
- This is basically boomer rock 'n' roll and more recent music out of Nashville made for boomers.
- Will marketers embrace aging boomers this year?
- Certainly, the boomers ' favourite activity is to SKI - Spend their Kids Inheritance - and that includes spending what they inherit from their own parents.
- And if a lack of financial security wasn't enough to make us hesitant to marry, the boomers showed us just how badly traditional relationship models can go wrong.
- The store plays a peculiar blend of 70s and 80s rock, massaging the memories of the latter-era boomers who populate my neighborhood.
- So, I don't hate the Hippies or the boomers, much.
2Something large or notable of its kind. Example sentencesExamples - However, he will give us his assurance tonight that he will never grow it, even if it is a boomer crop for New Zealand and provides many, many benefits.
- The Oz season is off to a boomer start in the lead up the Oz open and the Worlds.
- It's been a boomer of a season… it's been nice and warm.
- 2.1Australian A large male kangaroo.
Example sentencesExamples - No, male kangaroos (boomers) don't have pouches. Only females do.
- There's not much in the Australian outback that can give a fully grown 'boomer' a hard time.
- I didn't see the old boomer 'roo who startled me (as I startled him) on Bare Bluff earlier this week at dawn.
- 2.2 A large wave.
Example sentencesExamples - And despite the sea breach at Palling the Broadland boomers also survived.
Synonyms wave, breaker, roller, comber, billow
3US A nuclear submarine with ballistic missiles.
Origin Early 19th century: probably from the verb boom1 + -er1. Rhymes bloomer, consumer, Duma, humour (US humor), Nkrumah, perfumer, puma, roomer, rumour (US rumor), satsuma, stumer, Sumer, tumour (US tumor) Definition of boomer in US English: boomernounˈbo͞omərˈbumər informal 1North American short for baby boomer Example sentencesExamples - The store plays a peculiar blend of 70s and 80s rock, massaging the memories of the latter-era boomers who populate my neighborhood.
- Certainly, the boomers ' favourite activity is to SKI - Spend their Kids Inheritance - and that includes spending what they inherit from their own parents.
- The boomers are so into family values right now because they have kids.
- Currently, the median age for the boomers is around 50.
- These ambitious boomers, leading separate yet intertwined lives, still seem to love each other in a perplexingly modern marriage-in-progress.
- Punk and New Wave infuriated the boomers, because it was the first hint they were old.
- All the boomers are just going to have to face that fact of life.
- The boomers will require not only solutions for their serious health issues, but also some innovative gadgets to help them ease into old age.
- Generation Xers are saving at a greater pace than boomers did when they were that age.
- The boomers can't put off for any longer the fact that - chronologically - they are approaching middle age.
- I mean, as self-serious and righteous and vaguely uncool as they are, at least the boomers are obsessed with stuff like politics and the Beatles.
- One obvious explanation is that boomers intend to live forever.
- Young parents in their twenties and thirties are ‘nostalgic for the childhood that boomers supposedly had,’ as American Demographics has put it.
- And, as the boomers age, you know, we feel that we're entitled to good health to the end of time and so I think we will be noisy enough.
- And if a lack of financial security wasn't enough to make us hesitant to marry, the boomers showed us just how badly traditional relationship models can go wrong.
- This is basically boomer rock 'n' roll and more recent music out of Nashville made for boomers.
- Generation Y - for those mercifully not in the know - is the generation after the generation (Gen X) that came after the boomers.
- So, I don't hate the Hippies or the boomers, much.
- Will marketers embrace aging boomers this year?
- And yes, I know I'm older than most on this blog and yes, we boomers have loosened the bonds of marriage, defined our rights in terms of our desires.
2Something large or notable of its kind. Example sentencesExamples - However, he will give us his assurance tonight that he will never grow it, even if it is a boomer crop for New Zealand and provides many, many benefits.
- It's been a boomer of a season… it's been nice and warm.
- The Oz season is off to a boomer start in the lead up the Oz open and the Worlds.
- 2.1Australian A large male kangaroo.
Example sentencesExamples - I didn't see the old boomer 'roo who startled me (as I startled him) on Bare Bluff earlier this week at dawn.
- No, male kangaroos (boomers) don't have pouches. Only females do.
- There's not much in the Australian outback that can give a fully grown 'boomer' a hard time.
- 2.2 A large wave.
Example sentencesExamples - And despite the sea breach at Palling the Broadland boomers also survived.
Synonyms wave, breaker, roller, comber, billow
3US A nuclear submarine with ballistic missiles. 4US A transient construction worker, especially a bridge builder. 5US another name for mountain beaver Example sentencesExamples - There's not much in the Australian outback that can give a fully grown 'boomer' a hard time.
- I didn't see the old boomer 'roo who startled me (as I startled him) on Bare Bluff earlier this week at dawn.
- No, male kangaroos (boomers) don't have pouches. Only females do.
Origin Early 19th century: probably from the verb boom + -er. |