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BABY BOOMER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does baby boomer mean?
• BABY BOOMER (noun)
The noun BABY BOOMER has 1 sense:
1. a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
Familiarity information: BABY BOOMER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
baby boomer; boomer
Context example:
they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers
Hypernyms ("baby boomer" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Holonyms ("baby boomer" is a member of...):
baby-boom generation; baby boom (the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II)
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