Boomer

See also: boomer

English

Proper noun

Boomer (plural Boomers)

  1. A surname.

Statistics
  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Boomer is the 12968th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2368 individuals. Boomer is most common among White (70.65%) and Black/African American (22.09%) individuals.

Noun

Boomer (plural Boomers)

  1. (US, historical) A member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement.
    Coordinate term: Sooner
    • 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 27:
      Some skunk of a Sooner, sneaking in ahead of the Run, had set the blaze to keep the Boomers off, saving the land for himself.
  2. Rare form of boomer (“baby boomer”).
    • 1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Millennial Cycle”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page 342:
      Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.
    • 2021 October 14, Joe Pinsker, “’Gen Z’ Only Exists in Your Head”, in The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-13:
      In a somewhat bizarre set of survey data from 2015, 33 percent of Millennials identified as Gen X, and 8 percent said that they were Boomers. Fifteen percent of Gen Xers said that they identified as Boomers, while a baffled 2 percent of Boomers and 4 percent of Silents thought of themselves as Millennials.
    • 2023 May 27, Cole Moreton, Ray Burmiston, “I had to tell my kids never to Google me!: He’s just won a BAFTA and is about to star in a West End musical. Quite a turnaround, admits Ben Elton, the motormouth comic whose career went spectacularly off-key…”, in Daily Mail, page 4:
      Back in the 80s he [Ben Elton] was one of the angry young things of alternative comedy, but this time he was hosting up-and-coming acts. ‘It just goes to show that Boomers and Generation Zedders can get on after all!’

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