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  • baby boomer
    baby boomer
    noun
    a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.
  • baby-boomer
    baby-boomer
    noun
    a person born during a baby boom, esp (in Britain and the US) one born during the years 1945–55

baby boomer

American  

noun

  • baby boomers
    plural
  1. a person born during a baby boom, especially one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965.


baby-boomer British  

noun

  1. a person born during a baby boom, esp (in Britain and the US) one born during the years 1945–55

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of baby boomer

First recorded in 1970–75; baby boom + -er 1


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The original Mustang was so popular with its then-young baby boomer audience that it launched an entire generation of similar American performance cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

But as an early baby boomer, he grew up in a time when the nation was steeped in anti-communism.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

More men than ever are taking care of their elders, and as the massive baby boomer generation gets older, everyone will have to chip in.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

He is a billionaire who loves gold, an American who loves McDonald’s, a white guy who loves Creedence Clearwater Revival, a baby boomer who’s got beef with low-flow toilets.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

He was always ready to openly display the emotion so often missing from my baby boomer generation.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

And even when accounting for these people, Germany has an ageing population as the baby-boomer generation increasingly retires, and the nationwide birth rate stays stubbornly low.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Harley-Davidson HOG -5.19%decrease; red down pointing triangle spent years doubling down on its baby-boomer base with expensive cruisers and touring bikes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

The top 10% of baby-boomer households held almost three-quarters of the $77 trillion in wealth the generation holds, the research showed.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026

The company sees a total addressable market of $400 billion, retail and institutional, and believes that it will be a key beneficiary of the baby-boomer wealth transfer.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic, with its aftermath of supply chain disruption, has been central in convincing Italian baby-boomer business owners that the time was right to let outsiders into their closely held companies.

From Reuters ● Jan. 16, 2023

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