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baby boomer

noun

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.

  1. borrowed from bommen
  2. borrowed from bummen
  3. suffixed as boomer — “boom + er”
  4. compounded as baby boomer — “baby + boomer”

Definitions

  1. A person born in the postwar years, generally considered in the United States and other…

    A person born in the postwar years, generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of baby boomer.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA