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echo boomer

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noun

Informal.

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

Etymology

Origin of echo boomer

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

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Executives made a show of their newfound enthusiasm for the energetic world of the echo boomer by staging a rave to introduce Pontiac's new crossover vehicle, the Aztek.

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