Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that booms.
- noun Informal A baby boomer.
- noun Informal A nuclear submarine armed with ballistic missiles.
- noun A transient worker, especially in bridge construction.
- noun Australian A large, fully grown male kangaroo.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who booms; one who starts and keeps up an agitation in favor of any project or person; one who assists in the organization or furtherance of a boom.
- noun In Australia, a name of the male of a species of kangaroo.
- noun A name of the showt'l or mountain beaver, Haplodon rufus or Aplodontia leporina. See cut under
Haplodon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, booms.
- noun (Zoöl.) A North American rodent, so named because it is said to make a booming noise. See
Sewellel . - noun (Zoöl.) A large male kangaroo.
- noun Slang, U. S. One who works up a “boom”.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
adult male kangaroo . - noun A
baby boomer . - noun US A
transient worker who would move fromboom town to boom town in search of temporary work. - noun US, nautical, military, slang A
nuclear ballistic missile submarine ,SSBN . - noun UK The
bittern .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
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Examples
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Spirituality has its hooks in boomer men and especially boomer women.
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It's helpful to have the latest information on what's happening in boomer retirement.
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The individual, more likely to be a trailing edge boomer, is still enjoying the protective coloring of youth.
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There comes a moment when denial breaks, and the boomer is face-to-face with what can no longer be ignored or managed.
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But at other points, he labels the boomer generation a
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But at other points, he labels the boomer generation a
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While I sat quietly munching on my corn, I couldn’t help but think of a recent study conducted by Focalyst, which sheds new light on boomer affluence and dispels a common myth: nearly every baby boomer is an ATM machine, with so much money they don’t know what to do with it.
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Overview: During yesterday’s “Fourth Annual What’s Next Boomer Business Summit,” FH Boom polled some of the conference’s top speakers on their predictions for the top trends in boomer business for 2007.
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But not only with the space program but the moment that Karen Oakland (ph) wrote this, I think enough to impose it, it resonated with me, that for a so-called boomer generation of Americans, Walter Cronkite represented a timeline of their life.
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The 6000-tonne nuclear submarine, known as boomer in popular parlance and named Arihant (destroyer of enemy), will carry 'Sagarika' ballistic missile and will come in handy in for retaliation in case of an enemy nuclear strike.
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