English word senses marked with topical category "Baby boomers"
Parent categories: Generations, Age, Collectives, Demography, People, Sociology, Human, Time, Sciences, Statistics, Social sciences, Formal sciences, Mathematics, Society
Total 17 word senses
- OK Boomer (Interjection) Alternative form of OK, boomer
- OK boomer (Interjection) Alternative form of OK, boomer
- OK, Boomer (Interjection) Alternative form of OK, boomer
- OK, boomer (Interjection) Used to sardonically counter or dismiss an older person (typically a baby boomer) as lacking an understanding of the circumstances, priorities, or culture of a younger generation, especially by a millennial or zoomer.
- baby boomer (Noun) A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s), when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.
- baby boomlet (Noun) An increase in birth rate that occurred when the baby boomers reached childbearing age.
- baby boomlet (Noun) A child of a baby boomer, born during the baby boomlet.
- baby boomlet (Noun) Any spike in birth rate that is smaller than the baby boom.
- babyboomer (Noun) Alternative spelling of baby boomer
- boomer (Noun) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).
- boomer remover (Noun) COVID-19 (“the disease”) or SARS-CoV-2 (“the virus”).
- boomerish (Adjective) Characteristic of a baby boomer.
- boomeritis (Noun) A narcissistic liberal worldview associated with baby boomers.
- echo boomer (Noun) A child of a member of the post-World War II baby boom generation, born in the period extending approximately from the late 1970s or early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
- grandboomer (Noun) A member of the baby boom generation who is a grandparent.
- postboomer (Adjective) After the baby boomers.
- postboomer (Noun) One born after the baby boomers.
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