baby boomern.
/ˈbeɪbɪ ˌbuːmə/, U.S. /ˈbeɪbi ˌbumər/ Originally U.S. colloquial.
A person born during the baby boom occurring between the mid 1940s and the mid 1960s, following the Second World War (1939–45). Cf. boomer n.3The oldest of the baby boomers came of age in the 1960s and are associated with the counterculture of that period, the civil and women's rights movements, and the sexual revolution. However, the cohort has often been characterized by subsequent generations as financially privileged and advantaged, having grown up in an era of relative economic affluence (in the West), and having been the beneficiaries of widespread government subsidies and welfare programmes.
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1963 Brattlebro (Vermont) Daily Reformer 28 Jan. 9/1 (heading) Baby boomers, grown up, storm ivy-covered walls.
1988 Yoga Jrnl. July 49/2 The baby-boomers, the '60s kids, turned into yuppies... The don't-tell-me-what-to-do generation grew up and took jobs, and they brought the same self-promotion, competitiveness, aggression, and narcissism to the marketplace.
1995 P. Manuel in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents iv. 72 Frustrated by the stifling social conformism of the 1950s.., middle-class baby-boomers symbolically rejected much of their parent's culture and values, cultivating new styles of music, dress, art, politics, and recreation.
2010 F. Beckett What did Baby Boomers ever do for Us? (2016) xi. 184 The baby boomers, who have benefited far more from the welfare state than any earlier generation benefited or any future generation will benefit, do not wish to pay for it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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