boomer
See also: Boomer
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈbuːmə(ɹ)/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbuːmə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbumɚ/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈbʉːmə/
Audio (AU) (file)
- Rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
boomer (plural boomers)
- An adult male kangaroo.
- 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.
- (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
- A device used to bind or tighten chain.
- Synonym: chain binder
- (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.
- (UK) A bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).
- (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
- A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
- Synonyms: sewellel beaver, sewellel
- (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”)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
boomer (plural boomers)
- (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).
- (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.
- (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 edit
See also edit
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References edit
- “boomer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer. Equivalent to boom + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
boomer m (plural boomers)
- (informal) A baby boomer, stereotypically associated with selfish or old-fashioned ideas. [from ca. 2000]
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer; mainly through the expression OK, boomer. Equivalent to boom + -eur.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
boomer m (plural boomers, feminine boomeuse)
- (Internet slang) a baby boomer, an old person stereotypically portrayed as ignorant of new technology or modern concepts
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English boomer.
Noun edit
boomer m (invariable)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English boomer.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
boomer m pers
- (derogatory, Internet slang) boomer (person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well)
Declension edit
Declension of boomer
Further reading edit
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English boomer, a clipping of baby boomer.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
boomer (definite accusative boomerı, plural boomerlar)
Declension edit
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Nominative | boomer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | boomerı | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | boomer | boomerlar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | boomerı | boomerları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | boomera | boomerlara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | boomerda | boomerlarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | boomerdan | boomerlardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | boomerın | boomerların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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