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See also: Boomer

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From boom + -er.

Noun

boomer (plural boomers)

  1. Something that makes a booming sound.
    • 2010, Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear from Me, page 151:
      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. (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
  3. A device used to bind or tighten chain.
    Synonym: chain binder
  4. (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
    • 1990, The Hunt For Red October:
      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.
  5. (UK) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).
  6. An adult male kangaroo.
  7. (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
  8. A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
    Synonyms: sewellel beaver, sewellel
  9. (realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
    • 1999 August 19, polo@zTech, “Keep on getting beaten!”, in microsoft.public.ageofempires (Usenet):
      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.
    • 2000 August 28, Ghost, “Request for opinion: curious about the massive villager concept”, in alt.games.microsoft.age-of-kings (Usenet):
      Economically speaking, the attacker loses every time. So it's a war of the boomers.
    • 2008 June 12, Kresten Toftgaard Andersen, Anders Buch, Dennis Dahl Christensen & Dung Tran, "Reinforcement Learning in RTS games" (master thesis), page 51.
      The strategy of the rusher is to build a small army very fast in order to destroy the enemy early in the game, whereas the aggressive/boomer builds a larger army, which is not necessarily an advanced army, to attack the enemy.
    • 2008 July 13-15, Jin Park, Du Zhang & Meiliu Lu, "An intelligent agent for the game of Age of Mythology: the Titans", 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, page 93.
      Once the Heroic Age is reached, the boomer is able to generate a superior army at an explosive rate due to the advanced economy.
  10. (US, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (Oklahoma settler).
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

boomer (plural boomers)

  1. (informal) Ellipsis of baby boomer.
    Alternative form: Boomer
    Coordinate term: zoomer
    Boomers came of age in the era of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
    • 2007, Leonard Steinhorn, The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, New York: Macmillan, →ISBN:
      To the many Boomers who sensed that something had gone awry in Greatest Generation America, Mad was a glimmer of truth, a benign but trenchant voice against hypocrisy and pretense, a way to laugh at parents who fretted over status symbols and authorities who talked one way but acted another.
    • 2015, Melvin Delgado, Baby Boomers of Color [] , →ISBN, page 4:
      These fears have been exacerbated by the recession, which forced many boomers to turn to Social Security earlier than anticipated because of long-term unemployment and financial crises (Johnson and Wilson, 2010a, b).
  2. (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation.
    I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.
  3. (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.
    I'm such a boomer; I have no idea how to use this phone.
Derived terms

See also

More information Timeline of generations ...

References

  • boomer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer. Equivalent to boom + -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuː.mər/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: boo‧mer

Noun

boomer m (plural boomers)

  1. (informal) a baby boomer, stereotypically associated with selfish or old-fashioned ideas [from ca. 2000]

French

Etymology

Borrowed English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer; mainly through the expression OK, boomer. Equivalent to boom + -eur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu.mœʁ/
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Noun

boomer m (plural boomers, feminine boomeuse)

  1. (Internet slang) a baby boomer, an old person stereotypically portrayed as ignorant of new technology or modern concepts

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English boomer.

Noun

boomer m (invariable)

  1. boomer

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English boomer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbu.mɛr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -umɛr
  • Syllabification: boo‧mer

Noun

boomer m pers

  1. (derogatory, Internet slang) boomer (person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well)

Declension

Further reading

  • boomer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • boomer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer.

Pronunciation

Noun

boomer (definite accusative boomerı, plural boomerlar)

  1. (slang) boomer, baby boomer

Declension

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