Boomer

boomer English Proper noun s en. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Boomer is the 12968th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2368 individuals. Boomer is most common among White (70.65%) and Black/African American (22.09%) individuals. Noun en US historical A member of a 19th century movement which campaigned for the opening of "Unassigned Lands" within the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) for settlement. en Sooner en w:Edna Ferber Cimarron (novel) Cimarron 1930 27 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208929/page/n41/mode/1up Some skunk of a Sooner, sneaking in ahead of the Run, had set the blaze to keep the Boomers off, saving the land for himself. en boomer a baby boomer baby boomer. en w:William Strauss; w:Neil Howe The Millennial Cycle Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 New York, N.Y. w:William Morrow and Company 1991 part III (The Future) 342 https://archive.org/details/generationshisto00stra_0/page/342/mode/1up 978-0-688-08133-1 Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder. Joe Pinsker 'Gen Z' Only Exists in Your Head https://web.archive.org/web/20230913000345/https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/10/millennials-gen-z-boomers-generations-are-fake/620390/ 14 October 2021 In a somewhat bizarre set of survey data from 2015, 33 percent of Millennials identified as Gen X, and 8 percent said that they were Boomers. Fifteen percent of Gen Xers said that they identified as Boomers, while a baffled 2 percent of Boomers and 4 percent of Silents thought of themselves as Millennials. en Cole Moreton Ray Burmiston I had to tell my kids never to Google me!: He’s just won a BAFTA and is about to star in a West End musical. Quite a turnaround, admits Ben Elton, the motormouth comic whose career went spectacularly off-key… w:Daily Mail 27 May 2023 4 https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/i-had-tell-my-kids-never-google-me/docview/2819609077/se-2 Back in the 80s he [Ben Elton] was one of the angry young things of alternative comedy, but this time he was hosting up-and-coming acts. ‘It just goes to show that Boomers and Generation Zedders can get on after all!’ Related terms en boomerism Further reading Boomers (Oklahoma settlers) Anagrams en bemoor Broome en People