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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person born during a baby boom, especially the one in the United States and Canada from the mid 1940s to the early 1960s.

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  • noun A person born in the postwar years (generally considered in the USA and other Allied countries as between 1945 and the early 1960s), when there was an increase in the birth rate following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.

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  • noun a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s

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  • I like this choice. It relates to outliers when talking about dates and opportunities and its when all the baby's were born between certain years.

    September 28, 2011