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Is boomer a Scrabble word?

Yes, boomer is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of boomer?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.US

2. (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.Examples: "Distant contact, probably submerged. It's a wild guess, but I'd say we hit a boomer coming out of the barn. Could be a missile boat out of Polijarny."USslang

3. (UK) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).UK

4. (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).Appalachia

5. (realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.Examples: "you and i both know that there are some boomers out there who'll consistently hit bronze @ 16ish and assuming they have protected themselves correctly, are some tough players."; "Economically speaking, the attacker loses every time. So it's a war of the boomers."; "2008 June 12, Kresten Toftgaard Andersen, Anders Buch, Dennis Dahl Christensen & Dung Tran, "Reinforcement Learning in RTS games" (master thesis), page 51. The strategy of the rusher is to build a small army very fast in order to destroy the enemy early in the game, whereas the aggressive/boomer builds a larger army, which is not necessarily an advanced army, to attack the enemy."

6. (US, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).USalt-ofhistorical

noun (English)

1. (informal) Ellipsis of baby boomer.Examples: "Boomers came of age in the era of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin."; "To the many Boomers who sensed that something had gone awry in Greatest Generation America, Mad was a glimmer of truth, a benign but trenchant voice against hypocrisy and pretense, a way to laugh at parents who fretted over status symbols and authorities who talked one way but acted another."; "These fears have been exacerbated by the recession, which forced many boomers to turn to Social Security earlier than anticipated because of long-term unemployment and financial crises (Johnson and Wilson, 2010a, b)."abbreviationalt-ofellipsisinformal

2. (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation.Examples: "I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over."broadlyderogatoryslangsometimes

3. (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.Examples: "I'm such a boomer; I have no idea how to use this phone."broadlyderogatoryslangsometimes

noun (English)

1. (US, historical) A member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement.Examples: "Some skunk of a Sooner, sneaking in ahead of the Run, had set the blaze to keep the Boomers off, saving the land for himself."UShistorical

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "boomer"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "boomer"?

Scrabble
10 points
B3
O1
O1
M3
E1
R1
Words With Friends
12 points
B4
O1
O1
M4
E1
R1

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