baby boomer

noun

: a person born during a period of time in which there is a marked rise in a population's birth rate : a person born during a baby boom

especially : a person born in the U.S. following the end of World War II (usually considered to be in the years from 1946 to 1964)

The viewer is older, an aging baby boomer whose '60s activism has been lost among the years.

—Gary D. Christenson

Industry experts predict that reverse mortgages will play an increasingly important role in the coming years as some 70 million baby boomers hit their 60s—often with a lot less saved than they'd hoped.

—Cybele Weisser

Examples of baby boomer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Gen-Xers grew up as the younger siblings of the baby boomers, but the media landscape of their early adult years closely resembled that of the 1950s: a tactile analog environment of landline telephones, tube TV sets, vinyl records, glossy magazines and newspapers that left ink on your hands. —Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025

Population reduction is not economically desirable as the workforce decreases from people moving away, birth rate decline and the baby boomer generation retiring. —Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025

The number of procedures in his department — orthopedics — has exploded as the baby boomer generation has aged. —Annika Merrilees, Sacramento Bee, 12 Mar. 2025

The generation born between 1981 and 1996 has built wealth faster than either Generation X or baby boomers in the 2020s, according to several recent reports. —Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1963, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for baby boomer

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