zoomer

See also: Zoomer

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

zoom +‎ -er

The sense of "active baby boomer" is influenced by the word boomer, and is attributed to Moses Znaimer.

Noun

zoomer (plural zoomers)

1. That which zooms.
   • 2011, Gavin Lyall, Uncle Target:

     The car zoomed – the driver was definitely a zoomer – away to some unknown car pool […]

2. A kind of small swim fin.
3. (neologism) A baby boomer with a very active lifestyle.
   • 2010, Cheryl Cran, 101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y and Zoomers Happy at Work, →ISBN, page 15:

     A recent study released by the Conference Board of Canada states that the Zoomers (Baby Boomers who refuse to age), Gen X and Gen Y have more in common than we might think.

Derived terms

• rotozoomer

Etymology 2

Portmanteau from Generation Z and boomer (“baby boomer, a person born between 1945 and early 1960s”). Merriam-Webster identified the earliest use in its current sense as being made on 16 March 2016 by an aviation engineer named Jennie Santoro at HNTB Seattle, in a presentation called "Boomers to Zoomers: Passing the Torch to Generation Z!"

However, the word was ultimately popularized through a variant of the Wojak meme which originated on 4chan on July 21st, 2018, and from there spread to other platforms. Accordingly, Urban Dictionary view statistics suggest that it began gaining traction in mid-2018 before peaking in January 2020.

Noun

zoomer (plural zoomers)

2. A member of Generation Z. [from late 2010s]

   Synonyms: Generation Z, Generation Zer, Gen Z, Gen-Zer, Z, Zer

   Coordinate term: millennial

   • 2019 December 27, Anya Strzemien, “13 Ways to Be a Better Person in 2020”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Hug a Boomer/Xer/Millennial/Zoomer In case you missed it: Gen Z is mad at boomers for the state of the world; boomers are mad at Gen Z for being so dismissive; Gen X feels forgotten and yet resents even themselves; […]

Alternative forms

• Zoomer

Derived terms

• zoomer perm

 

Descendants

• → Russian: зу́мер (zúmer)

See also

Timeline of generations

Further reading

• “Words We're Watching: 'Zoomer'”, in Merriam-Webster, 2020 January 13

Zoomer Wojak – KnowYourMeme‎^[2], (Can we date this quote?) 23 And Z: America's Freshly-Minted Adult Generation Lurches Into A Brave Real World – Builder Online (18 May 2020)

French

Etymology

From zoom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu.me/

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Verb

zoomer

1. (cinematography, photography) to zoom, to zoom in

   Antonym: dézoomer

Conjugation

Conjugation of zoomer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	zoomer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	zoomant /zu.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		zoomé /zu.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	zoome /zum/	zoomes /zum/	zoome /zum/	zoomons /zu.mɔ̃/	zoomez /zu.me/	zooment /zum/
	imperfect	zoomais /zu.mɛ/	zoomais /zu.mɛ/	zoomait /zu.mɛ/	zoomions /zu.mjɔ̃/	zoomiez /zu.mje/	zoomaient /zu.mɛ/
	past historic2	zoomai /zu.me/	zoomas /zu.ma/	zooma /zu.ma/	zoomâmes /zu.mam/	zoomâtes /zu.mat/	zoomèrent /zu.mɛʁ/
	future	zoomerai /zum.ʁe/	zoomeras /zum.ʁa/	zoomera /zum.ʁa/	zoomerons /zum.ʁɔ̃/	zoomerez /zum.ʁe/	zoomeront /zum.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	zoomerais /zum.ʁɛ/	zoomerais /zum.ʁɛ/	zoomerait /zum.ʁɛ/	zoomerions /zu.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	zoomeriez /zu.mə.ʁje/	zoomeraient /zum.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	zoome /zum/	zoomes /zum/	zoome /zum/	zoomions /zu.mjɔ̃/	zoomiez /zu.mje/	zooment /zum/
	imperfect2	zoomasse /zu.mas/	zoomasses /zu.mas/	zoomât /zu.ma/	zoomassions /zu.ma.sjɔ̃/	zoomassiez /zu.ma.sje/	zoomassent /zu.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	zoome /zum/	—	zoomons /zu.mɔ̃/	zoomez /zu.me/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

zoomer

1. present of zoome