From en.wiktionary.org:
[Boomer]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
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*** Etymology 1
From [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Something that makes a booming sound.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2010 | author=Pearl Cleage | title=Till You Hear from Me | page=151
|passage=That's when the Rev let loose one of those great big BOOMERS of a
laugh. It was so loud in the closed space, the effect was what Wes imagined
it felt like to hear a bullet fired in a car.}}
1. [en] A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
2. A device used to bind or tighten chain.
3. [en] A nuclear ballistic missile submarine , SSBN .
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1990 | title=The Hunt For Red October
|passage=Distant contact, probably submerged. It's a wild guess, but I'd say
we hit a BOOMER coming out of the barn. Could be a missile boat out of
Polijarny.}}
1. [en] A Eurasian bittern (subfamily [Botaurinae] ).
2. An adult male kangaroo .
3. [en] A red squirrel ( [Tamiasciurus hudsonicus] ).
4. A mountain beaver ( [Aplodontia rufa] ).
5. [en] A player who prioritises economic development and securing resource s (and therefore future production) over offence or defence .
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. * 2008 June 12, Kresten Toftgaard Andersen, Anders Buch, Dennis Dahl Christensen & Dung Tran, "Reinforcement Learning in RTS games" (master thesis), page 51.
9. *: [en]
10. * 2008 July 13-15, Jin Park, Du Zhang & Meiliu Lu, "An intelligent agent for the game of Age of Mythology: the Titans", _2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration_ , page 93.
11. *: [en]
12. [en] [en] .
***** Derived terms
[en]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] [en] .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. [en] An elderly person, regardless of generation.
5. [en] A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.
***** Derived terms
[en]
**** See also
[boomer]
*** References
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
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** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed [nl], a clipping of [en]. Equivalent to [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
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*** Noun
[m]
1. [nl] a baby boomer , stereotypically associated with selfish or old-fashioned idea s [from ca. 2000]
** French
*** Etymology
Borrowed [fr], a clipping of [en]; mainly through the expression [en].
Equivalent to [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [boumeur]
- [fr]
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*** Noun
[m]
1. [fr] a baby boomer , an old person stereotypically portrayed as ignorant of new technology or modern concepts
** Italian
*** Etymology
[it].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl].
*** Pronunciation
[bumer]
*** Noun
[m-pr]
1. [pl] [en] [person who does not know how to utilize new technologies well]
**** Declension
[pl-decl-noun-m-pr]
*** Further reading
- [R:pl:WSJP]
- [R:pl:PWN]
[pl]
** Turkish
*** Etymology
[tr], a clipping of [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [tr]
*** Noun
[ı]
1. [tr] [en] , baby boomer
**** Declension
[ı]