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Baby boomer

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person born in the postwar years, generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s. Canada, US, capitalized, sometimes

    "The baby boomers, Americans born between 1946 and 1961, are increasingly discovering that the cohorts with whom they crowded into maternity wards, elementary schools, colleges and entry-level jobs are now clogging the fast track to the top as well, demographers say."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of baby boomer. alt-of
  3. 3
    a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s wordnet

Etymology

From baby + boomer or baby boom + -er, when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II. From baby boom + -er.

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