See boomer on Wiktionary
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It's a wild guess, but I'd say we hit a boomer coming out of the barn. Could be a missile boat out of Polijarny.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN." ], "id": "en-boomer-en-noun-MBZS7geL", "links": [ [ "nautical", "nautical" ], [ "military", "military" ], [ "nuclear", "nuclear" ], [ "ballistic missile", "ballistic missile" ], [ "submarine", "submarine" ], [ "SSBN", "SSBN" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN." ], "tags": [ "US", "slang" ], "topics": [ "government", "military", "nautical", "politics", "transport", "war" ] }, { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "British English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "0 12 14 9 23 0 7 21 5 5 0 1 2", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "1 9 14 9 27 0 6 23 4 7", "kind": "other", "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)", 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So it's a war of the boomers.", "type": "quote" }, { "text": "2008 June 12, Kresten Toftgaard Andersen, Anders Buch, Dennis Dahl Christensen & Dung Tran, \"Reinforcement Learning in RTS games\" (master thesis), page 51.\nThe strategy of the rusher is to build a small army very fast in order to destroy the enemy early in the game, whereas the aggressive/boomer builds a larger army, which is not necessarily an advanced army, to attack the enemy.", "type": "quotation" }, { "text": "2008 July 13-15, Jin Park, Du Zhang & Meiliu Lu, \"An intelligent agent for the game of Age of Mythology: the Titans\", 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, page 93.\nOnce the Heroic Age is reached, the boomer is able to generate a superior army at an explosive rate due to the advanced economy.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence." ], "id": "en-boomer-en-noun-SVg2EwEo", "links": [ [ "economic", "economic" ], [ "development", "development" ], [ "resource", "resource" ], [ "offence", "offence" ], [ "defence", "defence" ] ], "qualifier": "realtime strategy games", "raw_glosses": [ "(realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence." ] }, { "alt_of": [ { "extra": "Oklahoma settler", "word": "Boomer" } ], "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”)" ], "id": "en-boomer-en-noun-~MPvjT0S", "links": [ [ "Boomer", "Boomer#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”)" ], "tags": [ "US", "alt-of", "historical" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈbuːmə(ɹ)/" }, { "ipa": "/ˈbuːmə/", "tags": [ "Received-Pronunciation" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈbumɚ/", "tags": [ "General-American" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈbʉːmə/", "tags": [ "General-Australian", "New-Zealand" ] }, { "audio": "En-au-boomer.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/68/En-au-boomer.ogg/En-au-boomer.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/En-au-boomer.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-uːmə(ɹ)" } ], "word": "boomer" } { "derived": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "boomercide" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "boomerish" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "boomerism" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "boomeritis" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "boomer remover" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "boomer shooter" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "echo boomer" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "grandboomer" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "OK, boomer" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0", "word": "postboomer" } ], "etymology_number": 2, "forms": [ { "form": "boomers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "boomer (plural boomers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "baby boomer" } ], "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "Coordinate term: zoomer" }, { "text": "Alternative form: Boomer" }, { "text": "Boomers came of age in the era of The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "2007, Leonard Steinhorn, The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, New York: Macmillan, →ISBN:", "text": "To the many Boomers who sensed that something had gone awry in Greatest Generation America, Mad was a glimmer of truth, a benign but trenchant voice against hypocrisy and pretense, a way to laugh at parents who fretted over status symbols and authorities who talked one way but acted another.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2015, Melvin Delgado, Baby Boomers of Color […] , →ISBN, page 4:", "text": "These fears have been exacerbated by the recession, which forced many boomers to turn to Social Security earlier than anticipated because of long-term unemployment and financial crises (Johnson and Wilson, 2010a, b).", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Ellipsis of baby boomer." ], "id": "en-boomer-en-noun-dgwsYt5B", "links": [ [ "baby boomer", "baby boomer#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) Ellipsis of baby boomer." ], "tags": [ "abbreviation", "alt-of", "ellipsis", "informal" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "An elderly person, regardless of generation." ], "id": "en-boomer-en-noun-dHPvGUni", "links": [ [ "derogatory", "derogatory" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation." ], "tags": [ "broadly", "derogatory", "slang", "sometimes" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "text": "I'm such a boomer; 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}, { "rhymes": "-uːmə(ɹ)" } ], "word": "boomer" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "fr", "2": "en", "3": "boomer" }, "expansion": "English boomer", "name": "bor" }, { "args": { "1": "fr", "2": "boom", "3": "-eur" }, "expansion": "boom + -eur", "name": "af" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer; mainly through the expression OK, boomer. 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"baby boomer" ], [ "old", "old" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(Internet slang) a baby boomer, an old person stereotypically portrayed as ignorant of new technology or modern concepts" ], "tags": [ "Internet", "masculine" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/bu.mœʁ/" }, { "audio": "Fr-boomer.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/Fr-boomer.ogg/Fr-boomer.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Fr-boomer.ogg" } ], "word": "boomer" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "it", "2": "en", "3": "boomer" }, "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English boomer", "name": "ubor" } ], "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English boomer.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "m", "2": "#" }, "expansion": "boomer m (invariable)", "name": "it-noun" } ], "lang": "Italian", "lang_code": "it", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Italian countable nouns", "Italian entries with incorrect language header", "Italian 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"tags": [ "derogatory", "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomera", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerów", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomerowi", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerom", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomera", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerów", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomerem", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerami", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomerze", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerach", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomerze", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "singular", "vocative" ] }, { "form": "boomerzy", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "plural", "vocative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "m-pr" }, "expansion": "boomer m pers", "name": "pl-noun" } ], "hyphenation": [ "boo‧mer" ], "inflection_templates": [ { "args": {}, "name": "pl-decl-noun-m-pr" } ], "lang": "Polish", "lang_code": "pl", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Pages with 6 entries", "Pages with entries", "Polish 2-syllable words", "Polish derogatory terms", "Polish entries with incorrect language header", "Polish internet slang", "Polish lemmas", "Polish links with manual fragments", "Polish links with redundant alt parameters", "Polish links with redundant wikilinks", "Polish masculine nouns", "Polish nouns", "Polish personal nouns", "Polish terms borrowed from English", "Polish terms derived from English", "Polish terms with IPA pronunciation", "Polish terms with audio pronunciation", "Polish unadapted borrowings from English", "Rhymes:Polish/umɛr", "Rhymes:Polish/umɛr/2 syllables", "pl:Age", "pl:People" ], "glosses": [ "boomer (person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well)" ], "links": [ [ "derogatory", "derogatory" ], [ "Internet", "Internet" ], [ "slang", "slang" ], [ "boomer", "boomer#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(derogatory, Internet slang) boomer (person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well)" ], "tags": [ "Internet", "derogatory", "masculine", "person" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈbu.mɛr/" }, { "rhymes": "-umɛr" } ], "word": "boomer" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "tr", "2": "en", "3": "boomer" }, "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from English boomer", "name": "unadapted borrowing" } ], "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer.", "forms": [ { "form": "boomerı", "tags": [ "accusative", "definite" ] }, { "form": "boomerlar", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "tr-infl-noun-c", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "boomer", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerlar", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomerı", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "definite", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerları", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "definite", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomera", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerlara", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomerda", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerlarda", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomerdan", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "ablative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerlardan", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "ablative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomerın", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerların", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "plural" ] }, { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "tr-infl-noun-c", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "boomerım", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "first-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerlarım", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "first-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomersın", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomerlarsın", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "second-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "boomer", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "boomerdır", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "boomerlar", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "boomerlardır", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "boomerız", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "first-person", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomerlarız", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "first-person", "plural" ] }, { "form": "boomersınız", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "plural", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "boomerlarsınız", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "plural", "second-person" ] }, { "form": "boomerlar", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "plural", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "boomerlardır", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "plural", "third-person" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "tr", "2": "noun", "3": "definite accusative", "4": "boomerı", "5": "", "6": "", "7": "plural", "8": "boomerlar", "f1accel-form": "def|acc|s", "f1request": "1", "f3accel-form": "nom|p", "f3request": "1", "head": "", "sort": "" }, "expansion": "boomer (definite accusative boomerı, plural boomerlar)", "name": "head" }, { "args": { "1": "ı", "2": "lar" }, "expansion": "boomer (definite accusative boomerı, plural boomerlar)", "name": "tr-noun" } ], 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