Zoomer
Americannoun
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Explanation
A zoomer is someone who was born between 1997 and 2012, although date ranges vary. The formal term for the whole generation is Generation Z, but zoomer has become a popular shorthand for a person in this age group. Using letters to name generations started with Generation X. The term was used as a placeholder, and it stuck. Before that, generations were named after major historical events or cultural shifts. People in the generation before Gen X were called the Baby Boomers, as they were born during the post-WWII "baby boom." The term zoomer is a linguistic mashup of boomer and the Z from Gen Z. It began being used online as a joke, and it stuck, maybe because it reflects a generation that grew up in a fast-paced, digital world.
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Man, if my chest hair wasn’t going visibly gray and I was instead a lanky, chiseled Zoomer with a hit LP I might feel the same way about top buttons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
Eighty percent of Zoomer respondents reported feeling that young people were too dependent on technology, according to a 2023 Harris Poll survey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Zoomer, for a member of GenZ, is also new.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Directed by Halina Reijn, “Bodies” is an ensemble whodunit set in a McMansion in the woods that skewers Zoomer culture’s obsession with policing language even as its characters commit all manner of criminal acts.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
So says John Peter Zoomer, the original collector and contemporary of Rembrandt.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Zoomers are converting in sharply increasing numbers to Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Zoomers At the Brooklyn Center for Theater Research, Brooklyn, and at 269 West 25th Street in Manhattan for performances on Jan. 26 and Jan. 27; brooklyncenterfortheatreresearch.com.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
The 23-year-old Bronx native is a drill rapper who has captivated the chronically online Gen-Z audience with a presence that even we Zoomers and offline people can't escape.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2023
But the fact is, Millennials and Zoomers and Gen Xers combined outnumber my generation.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
He helped form a local chapter of a national group called Zoomers to Boomers, recruiting classmates to pick up and deliver groceries.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2023
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