Associations to the word «Boomer»

Wiktionary

BOOMER, noun. An adult male kangaroo.
BOOMER, noun. A baby boomer.
BOOMER, noun. (US) (mainly 1920-1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
BOOMER, noun. (US) (nautical) (military) (slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
BOOMER, noun. (UK) The bittern.
BOOMER, noun. (Appalachia) A red squirrel.

Dictionary definition

BOOMER, noun. A member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s; "they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky