"boomer shooter" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-boomer shooter.wav Forms: boomer shooters [plural]
Etymology: Boomer + Shooter Head templates: {{en-noun}} boomer shooter (plural boomer shooters)
  1. (Internet slang) A first-person shooter of the kind popular in the 1990s, focusing on action and fiction rather than realism. Tags: Internet Related terms: Doom clone
    Sense id: en-boomer_shooter-en-noun-oEqLvi6x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Video game genres

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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