boomer
See also: Boomer
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbuː.mə/
- (MLE) IPA(key): /ˈby.mɑ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbu.mɚ/
- (Australia, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈbʉː.mə/
- Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: boom‧er
Etymology 1
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Noun
editboomer (plural boomers)
- 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.
- A device used to bind or tighten chain.
- Synonym: chain binder
- (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
- 1990, Larry Ferguson, Donald E. Stewart, 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.
- (UK) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
- An adult male kangaroo.
- (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
- A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
- Synonyms: mountain beaver, chehalis
- (realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
- 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.
- (US, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).
- (US, mainly 1920–1930) 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.
- Antonym: doomer
- 2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 50:
- 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.
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Ellipsis of baby boomer.
Noun
editboomer (plural boomers)
- (informal) A 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).
- (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:old man
- I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.
- (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.
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References
edit- “boomer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer. Equivalent to boom + -er.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editboomer m (plural boomers, no diminutive)
- (informal) a baby boomer, stereotypically associated with selfish or old-fashioned ideas [from ca. 2000]
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer; mainly through the expression OK, boomer. Equivalent to boom + -eur.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /bu.mœʁ/
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Noun
editboomer m (plural boomers, feminine boomeuse)
- (Internet slang) a baby boomer, an old person stereotypically portrayed as ignorant of new technology or modern concepts
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English boomer.
Noun
editboomer m (invariable)
Polish
editEtymology
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Unadapted borrowing from English boomer.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editboomer m pers
- (derogatory, Internet slang) boomer (person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well)
Declension
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editTurkish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editboomer (definite accusative boomerı, plural boomerlar)
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