boomer
Syllables: boom·erUK/ˈbuː.mə/
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Multicultural London English/ˈby.mɑ/
boomer noun: something that makes a booming sound. Also the alternative letter-case form of Boomer.
Noun (1)
boomer (plural boomers)
- 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.2010, Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear from Me, page 151
- A device used to bind or tighten chain.
- Synonyms:
- chain binder
- A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
- 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.1990, Larry Ferguson, Donald E. Stewart, The Hunt For Red October
- A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
- An adult male kangaroo.
- A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
- A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
- Synonyms:
- mountain beaver, chehalis
- 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.1999 August 19, polo@zTech, “Keep on getting beaten!”, in microsoft.public.ageofempires (Usenet)
- Economically speaking, the attacker loses every time. So it's a war of the boomers.2000 August 28, Ghost, “Request for opinion: curious about the massive villager concept”, in alt.games.microsoft.age-of-kings (Usenet)
- A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
- 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.2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 50
- Antonyms:
- doomer
Noun (2)
boomer (plural boomers)
- A baby boomer.
- Boomers came of age in the era of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
- 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.2007, Leonard Steinhorn, The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, New York: Macmillan, →ISBN
- An elderly person, regardless of generation.
- I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Boomer
Boomer (plural Boomers)
- A surname.
Noun (3) capitalized: Boomer
Boomer (plural Boomers)
- A member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement.
- 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.1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 27
- Alternative letter-case form of boomer.
- Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Millennial Cycle”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page...
- In a somewhat bizarre set of survey data from 2015, 33 percent of Millennials identified as Gen X, and 8 percent said that they were Boomers. Fifteen percent of Gen Xers said that they identified as Boomers, while a baffled 2 percent of Boomers and 4 percent of Silents thought of themselves as...2021 October 14, Joe Pinsker, “'Gen Z' Only Exists in Your Head”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...
Also used as
boomer is also the alternative letter-case form of Boomer.
boomer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
boomer in Hindi
- बूमर
boomer in Tamil
- பூமர்
boomer in Marathi
- बूमर, बुमर
boomer in Urdu
- بومر, بومیر
More languagesFewer languages
- boomer in Bengali
- বুমার, বুমের, বুমর
- boomer in Telugu
- బూమర్
- boomer in Kannada
- ಬೂಮರ್
- boomer in Punjabi
- ਬੂਮਰ
- boomer in Gujarati
- બૂમર, બુમર
- boomer in Odia
- ବୁମର୍, ବୁମର, ବୂମର
- boomer in Nepali
- बुमर, बूमर, बुमेर
Examples of boomer in a sentence
- Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D are boomer shooters.
- Boomers and Xers were told to stay silent, but millennials and Zers were encouraged to speak up.
- Not since the baby boomers came of age has a generation been the target of such fixation.
Synonyms of boomer
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Forms of boomer
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | boomers |
| plural | Boomers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Boomers |
Origin of boomer
From boom + -er.
▲ English baby English boom English baby boom ▲ English -er English baby boomerellip. English boomer Ellipsis of baby boomer.
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Questions about boomer
- What does boomer mean?
- Boomer means something that makes a booming sound.
- What is boomer in Hindi?
- Boomer in Hindi is बूमर. See Boomer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is boomer?
- Boomer can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce boomer?
- Boomer is pronounced /ˈbuː.mə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of boomer?
- The plural of boomer is boomers.
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