boomer Synonyms
Another word for boomer
• noun (Context 1)
A member of the baby boom generation, typically defined as someone born between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s.
"As millions of boomers reach retirement age, the healthcare system faces increasing demand."
• noun (Context 2)
A nineteen-century settler who agitated for or rushed to claim newly opened public lands, especially in Oklahoma, or an itinerant worker who moved from one boomtown to another.
"Railroad boomers traveled across the western states following the construction of new tracks."
• noun (Context 3)
A nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine designed to serve as a strategic deterrent (in naval slang).
"The veteran submariner spent six months submerged aboard a submarine patrolling the Atlantic."
• noun (Context 4)
The mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa), a primitive burrowing rodent native to the moist forests of the Pacific Northwest, or the American red squirrel in Southern Appalachian dialect.
"Hikers in the Olympic Mountains occasionally spot the burrow entrances of a mountain beaver along shaded stream banks."