boomer

See also: Boomer

English

Pronunciation

• 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)

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^[1] (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^[2] (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

• thunderboomer

 

Etymology 2

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• boomercide
• boomerish
• boomerism
• boomeritis
• boomer remover
• boomer shooter
• echo boomer
• grandboomer
• OK, boomer
• postboomer

 

See also

Timeline of generations

References

• “boomer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Broome

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.mər/

• Audio:

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• 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/

• Audio:

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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

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English boomer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.mɛr/

• Audio:

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• 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

Declension of boomer

	singular	plural
nominative	boomer	boomerzy/boomery (deprecative)
genitive	boomera	boomerów
dative	boomerowi	boomerom
accusative	boomera	boomerów
instrumental	boomerem	boomerami
locative	boomerze	boomerach
vocative	boomerze	boomerzy

Further reading

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

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.mɯɹ/

Noun

boomer (definite accusative boomerı, plural boomerlar)

1. (slang) boomer, baby boomer

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	boomer
Definite accusative	boomerı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	boomer	boomerlar
Definite accusative	boomerı	boomerları
Dative	boomera	boomerlara
Locative	boomerda	boomerlarda
Ablative	boomerdan	boomerlardan
Genitive	boomerın	boomerların
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular boomerım boomerlarım 2nd singular boomersın boomerlarsın 3rd singular boomer boomerdır boomerlar boomerlardır 1st plural boomerız boomerlarız 2nd plural boomersınız boomerlarsınız 3rd plural boomerlar boomerlardır