baby boomer
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person born in the postwar years, generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and 1964.
Canadian usage; American usage
noun
Alternative letter-case form of baby boomer.
Example Sentences
- "The baby boomers, Americans born between 1946 and 1961, are increasingly discovering that the cohorts with whom they crowded into maternity wards, elementary schools, colleges and entry-level jobs are now clogging the fast track to the top as well, demographers say."
Etymology
From baby + boomer, or from 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.