baby boomer
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noun
- A person born in the postwar years, generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and the early 1960s.
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of baby boomer.
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Etymology
From baby + boomer or baby boom + -er, when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.
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