boomer

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːmə(ɹ)/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbuːmə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbumɚ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈbʉːmə/

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)

From boom +‎ -er.

boomer (plural boomers)

1. An adult male kangaroo.
2. 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.

3. (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
4. A device used to bind or tighten chain.

   Synonym: chain binder

5. (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.

6. (UK) A bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).
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”)

boomer (plural boomers)

1. (informal) Ellipsis of baby boomer.

   Coordinate term: zoomer

   Alternative form: Boomer

   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.

Timeline of generations

• “boomer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Broome

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.mər/

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• Hyphenation: boo‧mer

boomer m (plural boomers)

1. (informal) a baby boomer, stereotypically associated with selfish or old-fashioned ideas

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

• IPA^(key): /bu.mœʁ/

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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

Unadapted borrowing from English boomer.

boomer m (invariable)

1. boomer

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

boomer

Wikipedia ^pl

Unadapted borrowing from English boomer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.mɛr/

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• Rhymes: -umɛr
• Syllabification: boo‧mer

boomer m pers

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /buː.m(ɯ)ɾ/

boomer (definite accusative boomerı, plural boomerlar)

1. (slang) boomer, baby boomer