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baby boomer

noun

  1. a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.


baby-boomer

noun

  1. a person born during a baby boom, esp (in Britain and the US) one born during the years 1945–55
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of baby boomer1

First recorded in 1970–75; baby boom + -er 1
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Example Sentences

The baby boomer generation grew up in a world that looked, sounded and behaved more like the United States than ever before.

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Describing the demographics of the island, she said there was a mix of baby boomers and migrant retirees.

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The youngest of the baby boomers are now in their early 60s, the peak age of wine preference, surveys show.

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Bill Clinton and Al Gore, two Southern white men with card-carrying membership in the centrist Democratic Leadership Council ended up finding it, largely by offering baby boomer identity cred in combination with pretty conservative ideology.

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Many California baby boomers — who bought into their neighborhoods long ago — have made out like bandits through escalating home prices.

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