boomer

noun

1. Something that makes a booming sound.

   “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.”

2. A device used to bind or tighten chain.
3. (US, slang)A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.

   “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.”

4. (UK)A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
5. An adult male kangaroo.
6. (Appalachia)A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
7. A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
8. A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.

   “you and i both know that there are some boomers out there who'll consistently hit bronze @ 16ish and assuming they have protected themselves correctly, are some tough players.”

   “Economically speaking, the attacker loses every time. So it's a war of the boomers.”

   “2008 June 12, Kresten Toftgaard Andersen, Anders Buch, Dennis Dahl Christensen & Dung Tran, "Reinforcement Learning in RTS games" (master thesis), page 51. The strategy of the rusher is to build a small army very fast in order to destroy the enemy early in the game, whereas the aggressive/boomer builds a larger army, which is not necessarily an advanced army, to attack the enemy.”

   “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. Once the Heroic Age is reached, the boomer is able to generate a superior army at an explosive rate due to the advanced economy.”

9. (US, alt-of, historical)Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).
10. (US)A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
11. A techno-optimist, in particular concerning artificial intelligence.

    “The doomers and the boomers are consumed by intramural fights, but from a distance they can look like two offshoots of the same tribe: people who are convinced that A.I. is the only thing worth paying attention to.”

12. (informal)A baby boomer.

    “Boomers came of age in the era of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.”

    “To the many Boomers who sensed that something had gone awry in Greatest Generation America, Mad was a glimmer of truth, a benign but trenchant voice against hypocrisy and pretense, a way to laugh at parents who fretted over status symbols and authorities who talked one way but acted another.”

    “These fears have been exacerbated by the recession, which forced many boomers to turn to Social Security earlier than anticipated because of long-term unemployment and financial crises (Johnson and Wilson, 2010a, b).”

13. (broadly, derogatory, slang, sometimes)An elderly person, regardless of generation.

    “I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.”

14. (broadly, derogatory, slang, sometimes)A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.

    “I'm such a boomer; I have no idea how to use this phone.”

15. (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.

    “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.”

16. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of boomer.

    “Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.”

    “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.”

    “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!’”

name

1. A surname.