echo boomer

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noun Informal.

a member of Generation Y, born in the 1980s or 1990s; a Millennial.

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Origin of echo boomer

So called because many are children (“echos”) of baby boomers, and the birthrate also increased in the 1980s and 1990s

Words nearby echo boomer

echinus, echium, echiurid, echiuroid, echo, echo boomer, echocardiogram, echocardiograph, echocardiography, echo chamber, echo check

How to use echo boomer in a sentence

I hope I can be forgiven for finding this echo more than merely coincidental.
Meet Moses the Swashbuckling Israelite|James Romm|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was only one phone left and when it would ring, the bell would echo, oddly, off the walls.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Later in an Echo of Moscow interview Kadyrov said that the operation would be over in 20 minutes.
Fierce Fighting in Grozny Raises Specter of ISIS Influence in Russia|Anna Nemtsova|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In a grim echo of Michael Brown, the white New York City cop who placed Eric Garner in a banned chokehold wasn't charged.
After No Indictment for Eric Garner Killer, Is NYC the Next Ferguson?|Jacob Siegel|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Echo has documented all the crises of the post-Perestroika era, wars, conflicts, scandals, and protests.
The Kremlin Is Killing Echo of Moscow, Russia’s Last Independent Radio Station|Anna Nemtsova|November 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
"Yes, Alessandro," she answered faintly, the gusts sweeping her voice like a distant echo past him.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
The loping pursuit of that nameless, shapeless Something sounded like an echo in his head.
Uncanny Tales|Various
He was congratulating himself that he might still be in time, when the faint echo of firearms was borne to him on the breeze.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
Even the conflict which had raged along the borders of Missouri and Kansas had only come as a faint echo among the Ozarks.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn