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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.

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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

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Noun Inflected Forms

• baby boomers
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of baby boomer

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

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“We have this illusion that what the baby boomer generation did, if it worked for them, it therefore must always have worked, and that’s just not true,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

The population is aging—the youngest of the baby boomer generation is eligible for Social Security retirement benefits this year—while the clampdown on immigration has reduced the supply of new workers into the labor force.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

The "baby boomer" owners of about six million American small and medium-sized companies will retire between now and 2035, says a report this year, external from business consulting firm McKinsey.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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

Neil Saunders, a retail analyst at GlobalData, said that Athleta initially tried to target a wealthier, active but underserved baby-boomer generation.

From MarketWatch ● May 31, 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 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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