boomer n.6
1. (orig. US) a member of the ‘baby-boom’ generation (born in the late 1940s).
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Time 21 Jan. 57/2: ‘We’ the baby boomers – had the schools, the attention of the media etc. | |
| Fortune 15 Apr. 15/3: Not only must they find gainful jobs for their boomers [...] they also have fewer workers in the productive 25- to 65-year age group to carry the social costs imposed by the very young and the very old [OED]. | |
| You Got Nothing Coming 173: Woodstock [...] was attended by all 50 million or so of my fellow baby boomers. Just ask any boomer. | |
| Gutshot Straight [ebook] ‘You’re a front-edge boomer about to hit sixty-two’ [...] You’ve got a decent pension, some money in the house, but who knows will it be enough. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
| Mad mag. Jan. 37: Bottled water has become the whiskey flask of the boomer generation. | |
 | Twitter 29 Jan. 🌐 Beetroot-faced boomer cunts saying stupid fucking shit like ‘we fought in a war’ when they were born a fucking decade after the war ended . |
In compounds
(Aus.) the Covid virus, esp. in its initial manifestation.
| Urban Dict. 15 Mar. 🌐 Coronavirus is just boomer remover. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sociological Rev. 70:1 [internet] [title] The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Betoota-isms 13: Boomer Remover / 'bum? r?'muv? / 1. The first wave of the coronavirus pandemic [...] 2. The initial spread of Covid-19 that occurred February–June of 2020, resulting in a nationwide lockdow. |