baby boomer

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noun

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

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Origin of baby boomer

First recorded in 1970–75; baby boom + -er¹

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How to use baby boomer in a sentence

How about baby drama with little Abijean and the Wee Baby Seamus?
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He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.
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The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
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Three months ago, the two had a baby together and the Internet mostly just shrugged.
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At present, not every woman is young enough, fertile enough, or healthy enough to have a baby using her own eggs or her own womb.
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Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
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She had carried the baby over to Juana's and left her there, that she might be free to serve the Father's supper.
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Keep closely covered with a bell glass and, in a few weeks, more or less, the baby Ferns will start to put in an appearance.
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It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.
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The man with the automobile, the corn-cure, and the baby grew to be legendary in the villages of Provence.
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British Dictionary definitions for 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

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