baby boomer

Noun

Meaning

a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

baby-boomer

Synonyms

boomer generation senior elderly elder veteran geriatric pensioner old-timer grandparent retiree senior citizen golden ager aged person wise old soul

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Antonyms

millennial zoomer member of generation y member of generation alpha member of generation x member of generation z

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Hypernyms

person individual soul mortal somebody someone

Examples

Bleeding Ponytail: An elderly sold out baby boomer who pines for hippie or pre-sellout days. Douglas Coupland

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008. Lindsey Graham

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer. Jon English

For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location. Mortimer Zuckerman

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s. Christopher Hitchens

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate. P. J. O'Rourke

Close letter words and terms

baby bonus baby book baby boom baby boomer era baby boomer generation baby boomer years