English
boomer
see also: Boomer
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈbuːmə(ɹ)/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈbuːmə/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈbumɚ/
  • (AuE) IPA: /ˈbʉːmə/
Noun

boomer (plural boomers)

  1. An adult male kangaroo.
  2. (informal) Ellipsis of baby boomer#English|baby boomer.
    cot en
    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, Macmillan (ISBN 9781429909235)
      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.
    • 2014, Melvin Delgado, Baby Boomers of Color: Implications for Social Work Policy and Practice, Columbia University Press (ISBN 9780231538428), 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).
  3. 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.
  4. (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
  5. A device used to bind or tighten chain.
  6. (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.
  7. (UK) A bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).
  8. (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
  9. A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
    Synonyms: sewellel beaver, sewellel
Boomer
Proper noun
  1. Surname


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