boomer

Meanings

1. Something that makes a booming sound.
2. A device used to bind or tighten chain.
3. A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
4. A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
5. An adult male kangaroo.
6. A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
7. A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
8. A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
9. Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).
10. A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
11. A techno-optimist, in particular concerning artificial intelligence.

1. A baby boomer.
2. An elderly person, regardless of generation.
3. A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.

1. A surname.

1. A member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement.
2. Alternative letter-case form of boomer.

Etymology

From boom + -er.