boomer
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Is boomer a Scrabble word?
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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