baby boomnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈbeɪ.bi ˌbuːm/us/ˈbeɪ.bi ˌbuːm/a large increase in the number of babies born among a particular group of people during a particular time:
There was a baby boom in the UK and the US after the Second World War.
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