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Boomer
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 Something that makes a booming sound.
"That's when the Rev let loose one of those great big boomers of a laugh. It was so loud in the closed space, the effect was what Wes imagined it felt like to hear a bullet fired in a car."
- 2 A baby boomer. informal
"Boomers came of age in the era of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin."
- 3 A member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement. US, historical
"Some skunk of a Sooner, sneaking in ahead of the Run, had set the blaze to keep the Boomers off, saving the land for himself."
- 4 a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s wordnet
- 5 A device used to bind or tighten chain.
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- 6 An elderly person, regardless of generation. broadly, derogatory, slang, sometimes
"I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over."
- 7 Alternative letter-case form of boomer. alt-of
"Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder."
- 8 A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN. US, slang
"Distant contact, probably submerged. 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."
- 9 A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology. broadly, derogatory, slang, sometimes
"I'm such a boomer; I have no idea how to use this phone."
- 10 A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.). UK
- 11 An adult male kangaroo.
- 12 A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). Appalachia
- 13 A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
- 14 A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
"you and i both know that there are some boomers out there who'll consistently hit bronze @ 16ish and assuming they have protected themselves correctly, are some tough players."
- 15 Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”). US, alt-of, historical
- 16 A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work. US
- 17 A techno-optimist, in particular concerning artificial intelligence.
"The doomers and the boomers are consumed by intramural fights, but from a distance they can look like two offshoots of the same tribe: people who are convinced that A.I. is the only thing worth paying attention to."
Etymology
From boom + -er.
Ellipsis of baby boomer.
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