boomer
noun/ˈbuːmər/
Frequency rank: #9,710 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a person born during the post-World War II baby boom, roughly between 1946 and 1964.
Example sentence
My uncle is considered a classic boomer because he was born in the late 1950s.
Synonyms & related words
- baby-boomer
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