baby boomlet
Americannoun
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A baby boomlet, if any, likely would take a while to occur, as provincial governments would need to revise their laws, and permits still would have to be granted by family-planning agents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2013
Firms that sell car seats, nappies, baby food, toys and cradles will all profit from a post-recession baby boomlet, if it occurs.
From Economist • Oct. 14, 2010
And now the vanguard of this baby boomlet has hit first grade, where enrollments rose from a 33-year low of 2,894,000 in 1980 to 3,079,000 for 1983-84, with more coming.
From Time Magazine Archive
While there was something of a "baby boomlet" in the late 1970s, it was due mainly to the enormous increase in women of childbearing age.
From Time Magazine Archive
You can work yourself into a froth about how the calendar change promises only to render every check in your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards.
From Time Magazine Archive
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